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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.200258.6246@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:02:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.051615.2285@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Aug26.053814.13068@news.columbia.edu> <27AUG199210410687@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu>
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- In article <27AUG199210410687@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug26.053814.13068@news.columbia.edu>, 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!
- >
- >Yeah, just change the DOS_STARUP_DRIVE in the Settings to B: instead of
- >A:.
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- That doesn't work. At least it doesn't on my computer.
- DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE must either be A:, or a path to an image file on the
- hard disk.
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- Note that it's simple to make an image file from a disk in drive B:.
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