briggs@tamunix (Mark Lowe) (11/03/90)
ACK! I finally got a meg of extended memory for my 386. Now when I try to run Windows 3 with the /s or /3 options, I get "Invalid HIMEM. Install HIMEM from your Windows setup disks" or something like that. The HIMEM I'm using is from my DOS 4.01 disk. I checked out my Windows disks and there is no HIMEM. SYS to be found ANYWHERE! What is the deal here!?? All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks... Mark C. Lowe - KB5III
reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) (11/03/90)
In article <9801@helios.TAMU.EDU>, briggs@tamunix (Mark Lowe) writes... >The HIMEM I'm using is >from my DOS 4.01 disk. I checked out my Windows disks and there is no HIMEM. >SYS to be found ANYWHERE! What is the deal here!?? There is indeed a HIMEM.SYS supplied with Windows 3.0. I think it's copied to C:\ during installation. During installation, you should have selected 'Let Windows modify your AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files, but allow you to check the changes before overwriting them.' Then it would have been obvious where HIMEM.SYS came from. jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ricks.enet!reisert 77 Reed Road Hudson, MA 01749-2895
medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) (11/04/90)
Microsoft compresses the files on the Windows 3 distribution disks. For unknown reasons, the leave the filename intact for all files except *.SYS. The *.SYS files are renamed to *.SQS (or some such sillyness). There is an executable on disk 1 named EXPAND.EXE to uncompress the files. First copy EXPAND.EXE from disk 1 to your hard disk. Then search through your MS-Windows 3.0 distribution disks for HIMEM.*. When you have the right disk in drive A: (or B:), type [d:\path\]EXPAND [d:\path\]HIMEM.SQS [d:\path\]HIMEM.SYS Of course, substitute the correct drive ID and path, if necessary, in front of each filename. Don't write the expanded HIMEM.SYS on your original Windows distribution disk - this is considered very bad manners! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici/SysProg3 * Rutgers University/CCIS * medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------