Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!Kimmo.Suominen From: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: ISC dual boot Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 20:21:13 GMT References: <1991Feb25.210428.4566@world.std.com> <995@redford.UUCP> <1991Mar4.141901.4772@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu's message of 4 Mar 91 14:19:01 GMT Disclaimer: These are my opinions unless otherwise stated >>>>> On 4 Mar 91 14:19:01 GMT, brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) said: >How do you do this. I have tried to define D: in vpix as /dev/rdsk/1p1 >and vpix won't accept it. There was something strange about this - I think you needed to use 1p0. I know the manual says otherwise, and I know it seems funny to use the entire disk - but it works... Brandon> As far as the VP/ix definition of the D drive in the Brandon> vpix/vpix.cnf file, I definitely wouldn't suggest doing it Brandon> this way. This method only leads to a ~single-user" Brandon> capability to the DOS partition. A better way is to use Unix Brandon> to mount the partition: Brandon> # mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/1p1 /drived But this will cause VP/ix to think it is a Unix file system, and certain programs perform more nicely on a DOS file system. Also, WP won't work at all on a Unix file system. And there's more: if you for instance do a BIIIG XCOPY or RESTORE from a backup, you'll hit the inode limit on the DOS file system through Unix. This will be really messy, as you will end up looping through the same files all over again, or, as in the case of restore, the command will terminate in the middle of its work. But it is true, multi-user only works through mounts in the Unix file system. -- Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi "That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES