Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!ico!ism780c!darryl From: darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Unix / Dos partition problem in ISC 2.0.2 Message-ID: <45075@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 11 Jul 90 17:08:46 GMT References: <532@dptechno.UUCP> Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 26 In article <532@dptechno.UUCP> 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 " "Mounted a /users file system on the 1st partition, coppied some files, "and unmounted /users. Booted 4.0 dos stand alone and formated the dos partition. "Rebooted unix, ran vpix with the following line in vpix.cnf " "D /dev/dsk/1p0 This is your problem. 1p0 is the *entire* second disk. You probably want to use 1p2. --Darryl Richman -- Copyright (c) 1990 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.-A Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken