From: "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Fw: does DR-DOS dynamically assign the drive letters at boot?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:01:13 +0200
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Mike Anderson <mike AT lvconstruction DOT com>
An: florianx AT drdos DOT org <florianx AT drdos DOT org>
Datum: Dienstag, 12. September 2000 18:35


>I am about to upgrade from NW 3.2 to NW 5.1.  I have a 20MB DOS partition
on
>the primary drive that is currently assigned the drive letter C.  I also
>have a 1.2GB drive that has one primary DOS partition that is currently
>assigned the drive letter D (which has the NWSERVER directory on it).  I
>need to use the 1.2GB drive to for the 5.1 installation but I don't think
>that the Novell installation program will allow me to choose drive D for
the
>install.
>
>My question is, does DR-DOS dynamically assign the drive letters at boot?
>If that is the case, I should be able to delete the current C partition,
>reboot the machine to a floppy, make the existing 1.2GB drive bootable
>(which is now C because DOS has dynamically assign that letter to the first
>and only DOS partition) and end up with what I want.
>
>If not I will have to backup the files on D, delete the partitions on C and
>D , recreate the partition on the 1.2GB drive (which will be C) and restore
>the  files to the 1.2GB (C) drive.
>
>Thanks for your answer.
>
>
>