28 Feb
2002
28 Feb
'02
6:07 a.m.
>MICROS~1 published a "fix" for those who
wanted to install it on drives
>other than C:. Their "fix":
> Install it on C:,
> Copy it from C: to the correct drive.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
The Assign command works wonders in cases like
these. Unfortunately
MicroSoulth dropped it from their later versions of DOS. Still you can
probaly use a copy from an older DOS and use other DOS cammand (that I
can't think of the name of) to fake it into thinking that it's running
under it's native DOS version.
ASSIGN would NOT work for it. I don't know which IT you're talking about
but I HAVE used Assign a
number of times to fake a system into thinking that it was reading from
drive A: when it was actually reading from some other drive like a floppy
drive F: or some other odd configuration. I've also used it to fool the
system into installing stuff into a different drive and/or directory
instead of where it wanted to install it.
Sorry about the ambiguous pronoun. I was talking about the installation
program of MS-DOS 6.00
I've used ASSIGN, JOIN, SUBST with good success for many situation. But
the installation program of MS-DOS 6.00 would NOT work with a
"redirected" drive!
Fortunately, it was trivial to unpack on another machine and install
without their installation program.