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From: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How do I prevent MS-DOS from seeing Minix partitions?
Message-ID: <1292@infko.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 90 08:46:34 GMT
References: <2829@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <1948@apctrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: droege@infko.UUCP (Detlev Droege)
Organization: University of Koblenz (EWH), West Germany
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In article <1948@apctrc.UUCP> zalc0a@atanasof.trc.amoco.com (Arthur L. Corcoran
) writes:
>In article <2829@aipna.ed.ac.uk> jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven) writes:
>>
>>However, MS-DOS (3.30) still sees the Minix partitions (it thinks they
>>are empty) and assigns them drive letters. It also feels quite happy
>
>        ASSIGN E=D F=D G=D
>
>The drive letters will still be there but DOS will use D: instead of
>E:, F:, or G:.  (You may use C: in place of D: if desired)

Use MINIX fdisk to mark the MINIX partition as MINIX (or non-DOS).
As far as I remember, even 1.3 fdisk can do that. 

1.5 fdisk does.

DOS should ignore any partition that is not marked to be
a DOS partition. At least on my system it does.

	Bye
		Detlev
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