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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.033532.12091@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University, New York
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:35:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.011937.15884@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >: Is there any way to "boot DOS on drive B" instead of A?
- >: Is this a limitation which is in OS/2 or in the hardware?
- >:
- >: I don't mean boot DOS, I mean boot a virtual machine from that disk's boot
- >: sector!
- >
- >I haven't tried it out but can't you simply modify the "DOS STARTUP
- >DRIVE" in the settings notebook?
-
- Exactly what I thought! OS/2 pops up a message that "The parameter is
- incorrect!" Real informative. I pressed F1 and, guess what help is lacking
- in: tips about DOS settings! I hope this improves in the CSD, if it is ever
- released.
-
- Incidentally, it is nice of IBM to let us try out their beta
- patches, but can the betas be separated from the final patches on the
- FTP sites? Maybe there could be a separate directory for beta patches, so
- we know what we are getting into---especially for the patches that we are
- *not* supposed to apply unless we are having specific problems :-)
-
- I guess we had better treat all the patches as alpha anyway, as long as
- they patch the OS/2 2.0 GA *beta* :-)
-
- Sorry, I guess it just seemed like poetic justice when running the syslog
- program reproducably traps and *crashes* the system, when it is supposed
- to help diagnose system problems, not create them! Anybody else run syslog
- and have it crash...anybody else run syslog, or is that something that noone
- runs :-) If it hurts, don't do it, right?
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