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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
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- From: pzz@labtam.msk.su (Alexander Pevzner)
- Subject: Coexisting DOS & UNIX (was Re Problems wits Interactive UNIX 3.0)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:09:12 GMT
- Reply-To: pzz@labtam.msk.su
- Organization: Soviet-Australian Joint Venture TERN
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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.
- >
-
-
- Hi!
- You can Boot from Dos partition by setting this partition
- to be active. You can do it with programm fdisk wich avaliable
- under DOS and ISC UNIX. The UNIX version lives in directory /etc
- and is very similar to MeSsy-DOS one.
- ISC UNIX really has a strange problems with DOS
- partitions. If you will install UNIX first, and will make partitions
- by it's own fdisk (i.e. you'll make DOS partition on the beggining of
- disk and install UNIX to the rest of the disk), it WILL work ok.
- This is a magic and I don't know the reasons of it.
-
- Best Wishes.
- Alexander Pevzner.
- pzz@labtam.msk.su
- Russia, Moscow.
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