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- From: ed@maxed (Ed Whittemore)
- Subject: Re: DOS5.0 meets the creature from large SCSI disks and ISC 2.0.2
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- References: <1992Sep1.021427.8048@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:59:32 GMT
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- Robert Bernecky (rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM) wrote:
- : I am contemplating an attempt to move my DOS5.0 (with damn windows
- : so I can run Corel Draw) onto my Unix Box.
- :
- : My understanding of things as they are with ISC is:
- :
- : a. Windows and other good things won't work under vpix.
- : Ergo, I should run the system as a separate partition
- : using fdisk to change systems. This is a nuisance, but possible.
- :
- : b. ISC and DOS 5.0 may or may not cohabit happily, particularly on
- : a large (Fujitsu 2265 1.2GIG SCSI) drive. Can someone clarify this?
- :
- : Is this setup likely to work, or will the time I spent dinking around
- : restoring broken operating systems be better spent in buying Yet Another
- : System and keeping them in apartheid?
- :
- : Are they liable to trash each other?
- : Can I back up the DOS partition somehow (sensibly) onto a SCSI
- : QIC drive from UNIX? (I am currently using PCTOOLS on DOS, but
- : in spite of it being an excellent piece of software, it doesn't
- : appear to support QIC tapes on a SCSI bus).
- :
- : Thanks. Bob
- :
- : Robert Bernecky rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca
- : Snake Island Research Inc (416) 368-6944 FAX: (416) 360-4694
- : 18 Fifth Street, Ward's Island
- : Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9
- : Canada
-
- a. windows will run but not in enhanced mode, under VP/ix
- b. ISC and DOS 5.0 will cohabit happily, now, with 3.01,
- although you still can't mount large partitions under VP/ix
-
- you can mount large DOS partitions under unix and back them up, now.
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