#Deluxpaint on a2000
The problem is due to the external A2000 drive being DF2: instead of DF1:, plus
some not-too-clever programming in DPII. There are many ways around this:
1. Start up DP II from the internal drive. The load requester
always goes to the drive that DP II started from first.
2. Before running DP II, perform an "assign df1: ram:". This
will xfer references to ram: so at least the requesters can
be used. DON'T follow Steve Ahlstrom's "assign df1: df2:"
suggestion; this does a hard-assignment to the particular
DISK in drive DF2:, NOT to the drive itself.
3. Find a copy of the public-domain program "ASSIGNDEV". This is
a device-reassignment utility that WILL allow you to do
a "AssignDev DF1: DF2:" and effectively divert all refs to
DF1: over to DF2:.
4. Use a file hex-editor like FileZap or NewZap to search through
DP II and change all occurrences of DF1: to DF2:. Do this
ONLY on a copy of course! And this will permanently alter it
and cause problems with machines that have a real DF1: so
keep that in mind.
–apl