[syslinux] Re: FoxPro

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On 12/5/05, Somani K. <globalyogesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, friends
>       Carl guessed right, what type of problem i am getting actually it is
> not pxelinux problem it is problem related to DOS convential memory, which
> is less after loading network drives, and when i run foxpro.exe foxpro loads
> but when i give a command in foxpro for running a foxpro based program "DO
> programname" it gives error insufficient memory in RED window
>        Well suggest me if anybody knows about it
>
> Regards,
> Somani K.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Karsten" <carl at personnelware.com>
> To: "Somani K." <globalyogesh at gmail.com>
> Cc: <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 9:24 PM
> Subject: FoxPro
>
>
> > So to summarize: (and fill in a few blanks, correct me if I am wrong)
> >
> > You are booting PXE from a floppy
> >
> > PXE is loading dos.  Is it using memdisk and an image of a dos bootable
> > floppy?
> >
> > autoexec.bat loads the microsoft TCP stack and SMB drivers
> >
> > map a drive to an SMB (windows) file server.
> >
> > run foxpro, it errors with not enough memory.
> >
> > What is the name of the .exe?  guessing foxprox.exe.
> >
> > And this is foxpro v2.6, right?
> >
> > ^C
> >
> > Somani K. wrote:
> >> Hi, friends,
> >>      actually i am booting thinstation + dos boot disk using pxelinux and
> >> menu.c32 everything works fine but there is problem with dos boot disk,
> >> when it loads tcp/ip protocol and packet drivers for netwok in consumps
> >> memory around 540k and dos only supports 640k memory when i access mapped
> >> drive from server using tcp/ip protocol and try to run foxpro based dos
> >> program it gives an error of insufficient memory, but other programs like
> >> Wordstar, lotus123 running fine, i also tryied with memdisk and other
> >> things but nothing woks, so give me a suggestion if you can ?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Somani K.
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Karsten"
> >> <carl at personnelware.com>
> >> To: "Somani K." <globalyogesh at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: <syslinux at zytor.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:55 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Re: SYSLINUX Digest, Vol 33, menu.c32 chaining
> >>
> >>
> >>> Somani K. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> hi, alex
> >>>>     i think you are booting dos using pxelinux can u please help me
> >>>> with one thing how can i solve convential memory probelm in dos after
> >>>> loading network driver, it gives problem in foxpro based programs
> >>>> insufficient memory problem..
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Can you give some deatials of what you need?
> >>>
> >>> ^Carl K
> >>
> >>
>
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Did you see my earlier e-mail?  Try the things I suggested for a
start, and if that's not enough, copy & paste your autoexec.bat and
config.sys files from the bootdisk image (they're plain text, so just
open them in any text editor.)  Then we can make suggestions.