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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: MicroPort Unix V/386
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.212553.5164@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 12 Oct 90 21:25:53 GMT
References: <1071@digi.lonestar.org> <15@mcrsys.UUCP>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <15@mcrsys.UUCP> tony@mcrsys.UUCP (Tony Becker) writes:

>3) DO NOT change the fdisk info with ANYTHING other then the original
>   program, in this case, the UNIX partitioner. Note that if you change
>   from Unix to dos as the active partition, you can't get back.

This isn't true in my experience.
There is no problem at all in re-setting the active partition
to Unix within DOS, and rebooting.
In fact I do it both ways regularly.


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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie