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- From: mgilmore@csulb.edu (Mark Gilmore)
- Subject: DOS Partition on EXTERNAL disk?
- Message-ID: <MGILMORE.93Jan11103000@beach.csulb.edu>
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- Sender: mgilmore@csulb.edu (Mark Gilmore)
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:30:05 GMT
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- I'm interested in setting up a 486 with several external SCSI drives as
- a NOVELL server. The 3.11 installation manual mentions that the server must
- contain a DOS partition on an internal disk drive or a floppy (several times
- from pages 118-132). In particular, Page 119: "Machines that do not have an
- internal (channel 0) controller must boot with a boot diskette. Only hard
- disks attached to a standard bus internal controller can boot from a DOS
- partition."
- SO...I have no internal hard disk. Am I limited to booting from a floppy?
- Does a SCSI controller meet the requirements above? Anybody out there running
- a configuration with no internal hard drive? Or is the NOVELL document wrong
- in its use of the word "internal" to really mean something else?
- Thanks for any replies....
- Mark Gilmore, mgilmore@csulb.edu
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