Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.apps:1084 comp.os.msdos.misc:1195 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!barsoom!barsoom!tih From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: using share in dos4 Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 11:07:50 GMT References: <3603@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: news@barsoom.nhh.no (USENET News System) Organization: Norwegian School of Economics Lines: 33 halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern) writes: >I've recently installed dos4.0 on my pc and everytime I boot I guet this >warning message telling me to install share for large media. I should also >add that I have a 286pc with 20MB and 40MB hard drives. Why am I getting >this message and what should I do to stop getting it ? Since I've seen several people use 4.0 (or 4.01, which you really should be using instead since it fixes a few bugs in 4.0), and ignoring this pretty important warning (which really should be a fatal error -- why DOS doesn't load SHARE automatically I don't know!), I guess this ought to be posted: When you're using DOS 4 with disk partitions greater than 32Mb, something ugly happens to the FCB handling in DOS -- it stops working right, and you risk thrashing your disk partition. To work around this bug, you should have the SHARE module loaded, and not just by running it from AUTOEXEC.BAT, but by loading it from CONFIG.SYS. To do this, put a line like: INSTALL=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE (changing the path to wherever you've actually got SHARE.EXE, of course) in your CONFIG.SYS file. This will make DOS load the SHARE module before loading COMMAND.COM to start running DOS proper, and will make sure you don't get in trouble. In David's case, it's obvious that he's using his 40Mb disk as one 40Mb partition, and for this to work properly, he needs SHARE. -tih -- Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway. Telephone: +47-5-959205 tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.no