Commands such as FORMAT, DISKCOPY and DISKCOMP ignore drive reassignments.
Perhaps the MS install program did something similar to these commands.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:04 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Multiple floppies in one system?
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BUT, ...
The INSTALL program of MS-DOS 6.00 would NOT work with an ASSIGNed drive!