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From: kduling@nmsu.edu (Kevin Duling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: DOS and Minix Partitions
Message-ID: <1217@opus.NMSU.Edu>
Date: 7 May 91 00:34:44 GMT
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  I guess I wasn't quite clear enough in my earlier posting, so I'll try again.
I'm having serious problems with partitioning my harddrive to hold both Minix
and DOS.
  I'm trying to run Minix 1.5 on a Tandy 1000 SX (8088 processor) with a 32 Meg
Seagate 138R drive that has a Super Bios II formatter (Copywrite Western 
Digital Corp., 1988).  It has 939 cyl's, 4 heads, and 17 sectors.  I'm 
partitioning the drive with 10Megs for Minix and 20Megs for DOS. 
  I've tried using both vanilla xt_wini.c provided with PH 1.5 and xt2_wini.c
from plains.nodak.edu.  With both programs, after I install Minix and try to
install DOS, I find bits and pieces of Minix in my DOS partition.  Conversely,
if I install DOS first, then Minix, I find corrupted DOS files.  I just can't
get Minix to stay in its own partition.
  Several people have mailed me saying that the problem was that xt_wini
was finding the wrong number of heads.  The pre-menu message that xt2_wini 
spits out (and quickly clears) shows that it finds that I have 4 heads on my 
drive.  It also displays my partition data, which seems to be correct.
  Now, I've got to get this running soon or my wife is going to kill me.  She's
getting understandably frustrated that she can't use Fontasy and Quattro Pro
under DOS for 2 days at a time...and I'm getting VERY tired of restoring.
HELP!!

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Kevin J. Duling                     UNIX                       kduling@nmsu.edu
New Mexico State University        VM/CMS               oprkjd@nmsuvm1.nmsu.edu
Computer Center/Large Systems       VMS                    CC4831@vaxa.nmsu.edu
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