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From: louis@cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: au.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Second hard disk under DOS
Summary: All is well
Message-ID: <795@vax.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 13 Nov 90 19:07:22 GMT
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In article <794@vax.cs.athabascau.ca>, louis@cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
> I want to use part of my second disk to install DOS, and have troubles.
 
A trip thru the controller manual convinced me that I had left out creating
an Adaptec volume on the second disk.  Xenix obviously can live without
that, but DOS can't.  So I should have RTFM again.  I now have a first
disk devoted to XENIX root, and the second with a 20MB DOS partition, and
a 45MB Xenix partition.  Works fine.  I have to boot from the floppy, but
autoexe.bat transfers to C:, and away I go.  My next step is a paper white
VGA monitor and card combo for about $250.00, which will get me into Windows
on DOS and whatever on Xenix.

Louis

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Louis Schmittroth, Computer Science, Athabasca University