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From: rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Unix / Dos partition problem in ISC 2.0.2
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.025931.11964@media.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 90 02:59:31 GMT
References: <532@dptechno.UUCP> <45075@ism780c.isc.com>
Organization: Media Cybernetics, Inc.
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darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) writes:

>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.

I don't think so.  VPIX 1.1.1 has no clue about partitions.  As far as I
can figure, drive D *MUST* b /dev/dsk/xp0.  This is due to the fact that
VPIX apparently looks for the boot record for drive D which partitions
do not have.  Now, a 'extended' partition looks like a 'boot' disk, but
for some inexplicable reason, any logical drives after the first one
does not 'attach' correctly.

In summary:
	using D is a lose if:
		1) you have a partition > 32M
		2) If this is not the FIRST "disk" in the partition.
		(this may be gotten around, but I couldn't find it).

Also, using the UNIX utilities to prep up the DOS side would probably help.
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