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╔══════════════════════════════════╗
║ Drive B Boot Utility ║
║ ──────────────────── ║
║ A Public Domain Utility ║
║ All Rights Reserved by Yong Chen ║
║ April, 1993 ║
╚══════════════════════════════════╝
1. Introduction
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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 ■ 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
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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
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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
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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
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Follow the steps listed below:
Install
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To install the "Drive B Boot Utility" on a diskette,run the
program INSTALL.COM by typing
INSTALL: <─┘
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 <Enter>
or <─┘. If user wants to quit at this stage, press <ESC> 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
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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
<Home> 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 <Home> 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
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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.