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From: ins845b@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  k.l. lentin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS DOS 5.0 Install procedure
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.025553.14014@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 14 Jun 91 02:55:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.132007.21277@athena.mit.edu> yev_g@athena.mit.edu (Yevgeny Gurevich) writes:
>drives as installs in Win 3 did, for instance.  What is interesting is that
>my install disks wwere in B: since I bought 3.5" media and can't switch
>my A and B drives (CMOS setup doesn't affect them for some reason and my
>only recourse is ASSIGN).  DOS installed fine from B even though the booklet
>suggested that everything must be in A.  Go figure.

The CMOS setup just tells the machine what kind of drive each is. It doesnt
say to the machine..."call the 5.25 b:" it says "b: is a 5.25"
To switch them around open your machine and swap them physically and rearrange
the cables. Only other option is assign as you have discovered.


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