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- From: zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Problems with Interactive UNIX 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.114810.27829@fasttech.uucp>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 11:48:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fasttech.1992Sep6.114810.27829
- References: <8bnndwa.esprit@netcom.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology
- Lines: 14
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- In <8bnndwa.esprit@netcom.com> esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:
-
- >Problem 1. The first partition on the disk is DOS. The second partition
- >is UNIX. When I try to boot from the DOS partition from the Interactive-
- >supplied boot program, the system does not come up. It comes up fine
- >in Unix, though. I am able to boot DOS from floppy, then access the DOS
- >partition, but this isn't very clean. The DOS on the hard disk was
- >"SYS"ed from the floppy that I am booting from. By the way, if it makes
- >a difference, it is DOS 3.3.
-
- I used to have similar problems. When I used the ISC boot program some DOS
- programs I ran were flakey and crashed. When I booted from a floppy, all was
- well. This was with Compaq Dos 3.31. My problems went away after I installed
- DOS 5 on the hard disk.
-