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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Anyone know of a way to cold boot off second floppy drive?
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0b6r@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:23:02 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Thu 19 Nov 92 15:12, Digdug@iastate.edu (doug V Tran)
- wrote:
-
- DVT> Else you can use the msdos command 'assign'
- DVT> ex: assign b=a
- DVT> do a 'help assign' to get the right syntax.
-
- Sorry, but your advice is wrong. ASSIGN only allows the B: drive to be
- used as the A: drive AFTER the machine is booted. The swap won't survive
- either a machine reset (warm boot) or a cold boot.
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