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From: tikku@samsung.COM (Sanjay Tikku)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Unix / Dos partition problem in ISC 2.0.2
Message-ID: <14438@samsung.samsung.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:19:30 GMT
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Organization: Samsung Software, Andover MA.
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dave@dptechno.uucp (Dave Lee) writes:

>Help! I'm having problems getting a unix and dos partition to coexist on
>my second hard drive.  I setup my second drive with sysadm/addharddisk.
>I partitioned as follows:
>	Drive 68M RLL  -- fdisk info 
>Partition	type	start	end	length
>-----------------------------------------------
>1		unix	1	530	530
>2		dos	531	1022	492

Primary DOS partition has to be the 1st parttition. I haven't experimented
but I would guess that DOS partitions have to come ahead of non-DOS
partitions. I too had strange problems when Unix was on the 1st partition
but they all vanished once I put DOS partition as the 1st one on the disk.

sanjay
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