Welcome Pete. In what setting do you used Real/32 if you don't mind asking?
Just in the process of installing Real/32 on a no name K6 something clone.. On the first attempt the system hung on 13 progress bars formatting the drive, which for all I know might not be the best as it was scavenged from some cast off HPs sitting in a corner in an industrial setting. The PC could be flacky too. Second time lucky... It did not boot from the cdrom so used the first diskette to load the cdrom drivers. It tries a number of these. The third, the Fujitsu driver, worked on this box.
Formatting OK Now varifying there's no errors which would've probably showed up in the formatting process anyway. OK you got me, I just like seeing the progress bars run along the lower portion of the screen.
If you are familiar with DRDos you can see the similarities of the installation routine straight away. To be expected as it is a developement of DRIs Concurrent Dos. Obviously DRDos Fdisk never gave you the options of formatting the drive as FAT32 and it wasn't multi-user OS.
You get three installation options Real/32-Multi User, Real/32 Standard(can password protect files only( iirc DRDos 6.0 did this)and Windows 95/98 compatible. I selected the first option. Also installed the manuals, as well as the TCPIP/Internet extensions- more progress bars..................It's taking almost as long to install as RH 7.3 did on the same box and drive last night. That included X windows and Gnome.