4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
5:47 a.m.
At 20:56 02/04/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
Is this a restriction on being unable to map "c:", or being unable to map
out the boot drive (in which case the solution is simple - boot off
something else, e.g. "a:")
I have seen boot procedures in later versions of DOS swap around drive
letters after boot (usually diagnostic boot discs that set up a ram disc as
C:, and have the original drive somewhere else). Is there a mechanism in
3.30 to do something similar?
Rob
Couldn't you use the DOS subst command to
fake out the C: drive to some
higher-level folder, i.e. make your D:\scratch folder into the C: drive?
Directories don't have the filesystem limits that the root directory of
C: does.
This of course, would 'map over' your C: drive (is that allowed by subst
?)
DOS 3.3 doesn't allow this, otherwise the solution would've been simple ;)