Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 14:07:19 2002

> >> >MICROS~1 published a "fix" for those who wanted to install it on drives
> >> >other than C:. Their "fix":
> >> > Install it on C:,
> >> > Copy it from C: to the correct drive.
> >On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
> >> The Assign command works wonders in cases like these. Unfortunately
> >> MicroSoulth dropped it from their later versions of DOS. Still you can
> >> probaly use a copy from an older DOS and use other DOS cammand (that I
> >> can't think of the name of) to fake it into thinking that it's running
> >> under it's native DOS version.
> >
> >ASSIGN would NOT work for it.
>
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
> I don't know which IT you're talking about but I HAVE used Assign a
> number of times to fake a system into thinking that it was reading from
> drive A: when it was actually reading from some other drive like a floppy
> drive F: or some other odd configuration. I've also used it to fool the
> system into installing stuff into a different drive and/or directory
> instead of where it wanted to install it.

Sorry about the ambiguous pronoun. I was talking about the installation
program of MS-DOS 6.00
I've used ASSIGN, JOIN, SUBST with good success for many situation. But
the installation program of MS-DOS 6.00 would NOT work with a
"redirected" drive!
Fortunately, it was trivial to unpack on another machine and install
without their installation program.
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 14:07:19 GMT

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