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- From: digdug@iastate.edu (Doug V Tran)
- Subject: Re: Anyone know of a way to cold boot off second floppy drive?
- Message-ID: <digdug.722191406@pv7b02.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: boot
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <Bx5B65.A44@apollo.hp.com> <1992Nov17.100223.25643@htsa.aha.nl> <davem.722044569@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:43:26 GMT
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- In <davem.722044569@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro) writes:
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- >I have a program called boot_b lying around somewhere (try archie) which
- >creates a disk for drive a which boots a disk in drive b. Had no problems with
- >it, wait a minute... Yeah, just booted dos 3.1 on drive b (from when I had a
- >5.25" drive as a...)
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- Else you can use the msdos command 'assign'
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- ex: assign b=a
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- do a 'help assign' to get the right syntax.
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- later,
- doug
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