ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º Drive B Boot Utility º º ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ º º A Public Domain Utility º º All Rights Reserved by Yong Chen º º April, 1993 º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ 1. Introduction ---------------- The BIOS has set the drive A and drive C as the boot drives. If you have a bootable diskette, i.e a game diskette, which the size is different from that of the disk drive A on your machine, and sometimes diskcopy is not working because of different size of diskette, you may find it is difficult to use that diskette. The only way seems to change the hardware þ exchange the cable of disk drives, but this method is not also difficult for those people who do not understand computer well. I wrote this utility to help to solve this problem. 2. Legal Stuff -------------- Redistribution This is a Freeware, you may redistribute this software providing that, No Profit is Attained, and, that this notice and all of its accompanying material, including all the files and programs, are distributed together without any changes, whether it be by electronic media, or Bulletin Board Service. Limitations of Liability This software is distributed AS IS, and the author cannot be held responsible, and will not be liable to you for damages, including any loss of profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use of this software, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damage. THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OUTLINED ABOVE ! Comments For those users who have Internet access, you can send your comments, suggestions and bug reports to: stdyxc05@shsu.edu or stdyxc@pip.shsu.edu or write to Yong Chen, P.O.Box 2773, SHSU, Huntsville, TX 77341 3. Files on bboot.zip --------------------- This utility is distributed in a zip file : bboot.zip. Below is a list of the files that should be on this zip file: install.com This is main program file. It will put the "Drive B Boot Utility" on a floppy disk in drive A. bboot.doc This file contains user manual and other useful information. 4. System requirements ---------------------- This utility works on a PC or compatible machine which has at least two floppy disk drives. And also it needs 640KB conventional memory. 5. Instruction To Use the Program --------------------------------- Follow the steps listed below: Install ======= To install the "Drive B Boot Utility" on a diskette,run the program INSTALL.COM by typing INSTALL: <ÄÙ A copyright screen will be displayed, and then the program ask the user to put a formatted diskette in to drive A. If user wants to continue to install the utility on disk, hit or <ÄÙ. If user wants to quit at this stage, press key and the program terminates. If the operation is failed, the program will ask the user to try again. If the operation is successful, the program terminates. Boot operation ============== Put the diskette on which the Drive B Boot Utility just be installed, and put a bootable diskette into drive B. Do cold or warm boot. The utility will ask you to confirm that a bootable diskette has been put into drive B, and if so, simply press any key to continue. If the boot process failed, just follow the instruction show on the screen. If the boot process succeed, Remember to press key to let the system access drive A correctly. If you do not hit that key, all the disk operation on drive A will be transferred to drive B, this MAY cause information lost on disk in drive A. But after you hit key once, you do not have to hit that key every time before you want to do a disk operation on drive A. 6. Notice --------- It is more safe not to use the disk which this utility has been installed for other use, i.e. to save some other programs, data files.