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- From: liuwu@acuson.com (Wu Liu)
- Subject: Re: How do I access 2nd DOS partition under Merge?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.000954.1911@acuson.com>
- Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
- References: <1993Jan7.173139.13497@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:09:54 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- ste@hudson.att.com (Shaun Erickson [94]) writes:
- >Hi. I am running Dell Unix SVR4 2.2. I have 2 disks on my machine. The
- >boot disk is set up so that the first partition on it is a 1MB dos
- >partition and the 2nd partition uses up the remainder of the drive and
- >contains my unix release. The dos partition is bootable and contains
- >only my config.sys and autoexec.bat, and they are set up such that they
- >look for all my dos software on my second drive which has only one dos
- >partition on it which uses up the entire drive.
- >
- >When I boot up under dos, the 1MB slice on the 1st drive is my C: drive
- >and my second drive is my D: drive.
- >
- >However, when I run dos under unix, via Merge, the 1st slice of my first
- >drive is my E: drive (as it should be) but I can't access my second dos
- >drive at all. I would like it to be available as my F: drive. I NEED
- >access to that drive, as that is where ALL of my dos software resides.
- >
- >Can someone explain to me how to access it? Thanks!
-
- You'll need to modify the Merge configuration so that the device that
- corresponds to your D: drive is assigned the F: drive number. Check
- the Merge documentation for how to do this.
-
- For SCO ODT 1.0/1.1, you'd add "+af:=/dev/dsk/1s4" to the default Merge
- configuration file. I don't remember what the procedure is for ODT 2.0
- (newer version of Merge, with stuff moved around from before... :-().
-
- You could use "dos +af:=/dev/dsk/1s4" from the command line, but that's
- a bit cumbersome to type every time out.
-
- BTW, the device name to use may be different. The partition you want is
- #4 on the second disk (System V disks start at 0).
- --
- Wu Liu Software Engineer, User Interface Group
- liuwu@acuson.COM Acuson
-