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From: swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix and Dos
Message-ID: <5820023@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:04:39 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>>> Is it possible for MINIX to co-habit on
>>> a DOS formatted drive?  I only have a puny little 30 MB RLL
>>> drive and it would be a real drag to have to back-it-up and
>>> format it for MINIX instead.  Thoughts?  Thanks.
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Have you considered creating a second partition on the hard disk, with one
designated as a DOS logical disk and the other as a MINIX logicial disk?

Having done this, you can load special boot code onto the physical
sector 0 of the physical drive that asks you at boot time which partition
to boot.  Several varieties of this "dualboot" capability have been
posted to the net.