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- From: ovhe@ki.icl.se (Ove Hedin)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Re: Drive B booter
- Message-ID: <ovhe.725493024@sw2020>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 21:50:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.203254.10413@uwasa.fi>
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- ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
-
- >-Subject: Re: Drive B booter
- >-To: huangp@andromeda.EE.McGill.CA (mingway peter james huang)
- >-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:30:53 +0200 (EET)
- >-From: ts
-
- >> Hi there,
- >> I was hoping you could possibly help me out. I'm looking for a DOS
- >> program which would allow me to boot from the B drive. I found one on
- >> wuarchive, but the file boot_b.zip only assumes that your 3 1/2 inch drive
- >> is your a: drive and your b: drive is a 5 1/4. On my system it's vice versa
- >> and I'd like to be able to boot from my b: temporarily without having to
- >> rip apart my computer to reconfigure it. Both drives are high density
- >> drives, my a: drive being a 5 1/4 and my b: drive beinga 3 1/2. If you know
- >> of any program which would allow me to do this, and you could point the way
- >> as to where I could get it via ftp, it would be much appreciated.
-
-
- HI Timo , I had the same problem with my hard discs , I wanted to be able
- to boot from both C: and D: or I wanted to boot SVR4 UNIX and BSD Unix
- from two separate drives , I solved i easyly with a little mecanical switch
- , I works great and it boots whatever is on the discs.
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