Making an optimized boot-floppy

[Wiruz]

If you wan't to make a floppy for booting up a very small computer into dos.

Which lines can be put into autoexec.bat and/or config sys, to make the system faster after boot?

The only program to run, is a small client which is heavily depending on cpu power using it 100%

There is no harddrive in the system, nor screen.

The client uses about 1 megabyte of memory, out of a total of 8. The only lines i've included in the autoexec and config.sys is himem.sys, the command line for smartdrv (no cd-rom module) and a command line which starts the client.

What can i do, if anything, to optimize the autoexec.bat and config.sys?

Any help is highly appreciated!

~Wiruz

[qball]

is this a trick question?

himem allows one to use the UMB for addressing so now the only question is can you load smartdrv into upper memory? Dependent upon what the client's memory reqs, you may want to load a extended memory manager (emm386).

How'd I do?

[falcompsx]

try running memmaker.exe from dos 6.22 It will load any and all programs into the UMB that are possible to be loaded to UMB.

[Wiruz]

Qball - forgot that one, thanks!

If you don't know what system i am talking about, you ought to visit the "distributed computing" forum - i've got a post called "pictures of the abomination" - it will probably make a little more sense then.

Memory is not a problem, but speed is, it is only performing at about 66% of it capability - but i'll try loading emm... whoops! - is it even included in win98SE?

hmmm - i'll try searching...

~Wiruz - thanks a lot by the way!