I don't know what is causing the alert. Is that in MS-DOS or
when Win98/SE boots?
You shouldn't need EMM386.EXE for booting DOS or booting
Win98/SE. What happens without EMM386.EXE loaded?
First, my understanding is Win98/SE won't work with Freedos.
Second, you need Win98's HIMEM.SYS to install Win98, but if
you have more than 1GB of memory, you'll need to use
Japheth's HIMEMX.
http://www.japheth.de/Jemm.html
Win98/SE's memory is not capped by available XMS memory
from HIMEMX. Win98/SE is capped by MaxPhysPage and
MaxFileCache in system.ini. These work with HIMEM.SYS
for 4GB during Win98 install:
system.ini
[386enh]
MaxPhysPage=22000
[vcache]
MaxFileCache=560000
These work with after Win98\SE install with Japheth's
HIMEMX.SYS for 4GB:
system.ini
[386enh]
MaxPhysPage=3FFFF
[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288
Japheth's HIMEMX.SYS can be switched for HIMEM.SYS
during Win98/SE's install *after* the first reboot.
Edit the setup's system.ini.
Rod Pemberton