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From: protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Simultask 2.0 / ESIX V3.2 / 2nd Drive
Message-ID: <4638@clover2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:36:05 GMT
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From article <4555@ash14.UUCP>, by cramerk@motcid.UUCP (Kristin J Cramer):
> I seem to be having a problem with simulatask 2.0 (left over from
> AT&T) and Esix V 3.2 and a second drive.
> 
> I would like to have the second drive all DOS and the first drive all
> UNIX. I can boot Unix off the hard drive and DOS off the floppy and 
> change command.com to the second drive.
> 

I think I have a solution.  This assumes that one drive is big
enough to hold both DOS and the ESIX /root partition.

Take the bigger drive and make 2 partitions on it.  
Partion 1 should be for DOS.  Make it as big as your second disk,
or whatever size you want for DOS.  The drive should have at
about 30 MB for partition #2 (for ESIX).

Install DOS on this first partition.  Now Install ESIX on the
second partition.  Just make one filesystem on this drive: /.

Now add the second drive with diskadd under ESIX.
You can have the /usr partition on this second drive.
ESIX should be more efficient using 2 drives, and you can
now use Simultask to access the partition on the first drive; if
you don't have a dos partition on the second drive, you won't 
have that problem.

Your dos partition will now be D: under simultask.  I don't know
if you can make it C:

This way, you can even use fdisk to change the active partition
and boot Unix or DOS!
-- 
Mike Protofanousis 
msp@pronet.chi.il.us
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