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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Disk Partitions in XENIX and DOS
Summary: partition numbering
Keywords: SCO XENIX-386 2.3.2, DOS 4.0
Message-ID: <511649@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 10:31:17 GMT
References: <183@nat-3.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Star, Notre Dame, IN USA
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In article <183@nat-3.UUCP>, root@nat-3.UUCP (nat-3 System Administrator) writes:
> 	I am using a system that has an 8 Mb MS-DOS 4.0 partition and
> a 33 Mb XENIX-386 2.3.2 partition on an ST-251-1 disk drive.  DOS's
> FDISK shows partition 1 being a DOS partition and partition 2 being
> a XENIX partition.  Fine.  But XENIX's fdisk and Ontrack's Disk
> Manager report that the XENIX partition is on partition 4.  What is
> going on?

maybe they are numbering the partitions differently.

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