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ArcaOS USB floppy drive letter assignment

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Dave Yeo:
Unluckily there is not a way to use A: or B: except a real floppy. In theory you might be able to binary edit the installer, changing B: to E: or do the install under VirtualBox or such and move the installed program.

Lars:
That is not true. If you have no legacy floppy drive, you can force a USB floppy drive to use drive letter A:
The /A_USAGE switch will do but I forgot the correct value. Try 0,1,2.
It is also possible that you need to load IBM1FLPY.ADD for the "drive letter handover" to work (I cannot remember any more).
Or try the other way and remove it from config.sys.

Lars:
Another thing to try: boot with only the USB floppy attached but not any other USB stick.
Use switch /A_USAGE:1

ivan:
Just by way of information I have SimCity running from a floppy disk mounted in a USB floppy drive that is seen as drive A: 

As Lars says you need both BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD and BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:1 in Config.Sys for that to work.

Lars:

--- Quote from: Greg Barrett on October 19, 2020, 05:10:38 pm ---The application is for OS/2.

--- End quote ---
Hi Greg,
did you receive my two answers for your request?
Lars

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