opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) (01/01/91)
I am trying to get our ATT 386sx/EL computers to think that the A drive is the B drive during boot up so that people can't boot off of the floppy. I have been able to do this by switching cables and changing the setup so the computer thinks it has a B drive. the problem is that to get the B drive to become the A drive (this is done so that novice users are not confused), we have to use the SUBST command from DOS. The problem arises in that there must be a diskette in the drive in order to substitute it. We have been able to get around the error which states there is no diskette present but SUBST returns the error that the path is not found. Does anyone know how SUBST works so that we may write a psuedo command to subst the B drive for the A drive? advTHANKSance Gary Bushey StarLAN Administrator opergb@newton.uvm.edu
jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu (John Silva) (01/01/91)
In article <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu> opergb@uvm.edu writes: >... >Does anyone know how SUBST works so that we may write a psuedo command to >subst the B drive for the A drive? > >Gary Bushey >StarLAN Administrator >opergb@newton.uvm.edu Use 'assign a=b' rather than subst. This will direct all references to drive A to drive B. -J. John P. Silva "I drank WHAT?!" Inova Products, Inc. Internet: jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu (415)222-9255 Usenet: ucbvax!cogsci!jsilva
mdb@abcom.ATT.COM (049nr Tim Peterson x2264 ) (01/03/91)
From article <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu>, by opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey): > I am trying to get our ATT 386sx/EL computers to think that the A drive is the > B drive during boot up so that people can't boot off of the floppy. > > I have been able to do this by switching cables and changing the setup so > the computer thinks it has a B drive. > It has been a long time but have you explored the assign command? I think it goes something like assign a=b I am not sure of the exact syntax since by manual is not handy. Hope this helps. Mike Barnes.
dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) (01/03/91)
In article <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu> opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes: >Raymond-Protection: enabled > >I am trying to get our ATT 386sx/EL computers to think that the A drive is the >B drive during boot up so that people can't boot off of the floppy. > >I have been able to do this by switching cables and changing the setup so >the computer thinks it has a B drive. > >the problem is that to get the B drive to become the A drive (this is done >so that novice users are not confused), we have to use the SUBST command from >DOS. The problem arises in that there must be a diskette in the drive in order >to substitute it. We have been able to get around the error which states there >is no diskette present but SUBST returns the error that the path is not found. > >Does anyone know how SUBST works so that we may write a psuedo command to >subst the B drive for the A drive? Why not try the assign command ? I use assign when i install program from B: drive but the install program expect to find itself in A:, so try assign B=A. =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenbourg, Sweden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================