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From: howardl@tekline.UUCP (Howard D. Leadmon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Booting xenix/microport unix from drives other than C:
Message-ID: <134@tekline.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 18:49:09 EST
Article-I.D.: tekline.134
Posted: Thu Nov  6 18:49:09 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Nov-86 03:34:02 EST
References: <69@reality1.UUCP>
Organization: Tekline BBS, Baltimore, Md.
Lines: 40
Keywords: PC/AT unix boot
Summary: Booting two different Operating Systems..

In article <69@reality1.UUCP>, james@reality1.UUCP (james) writes:
> Is it possible to boot Xenix or Microport's unix from a second hard disk? 
> Is there a way of doing this by running a boot program under DOS, or
> booting the computer from a floppy disk (which then boots xenix/unix from D:)?
> -- 
> James R. Van Artsdalen    ...!ut-ngp!utastro!osi3b2!james  

  There may be a way to do this with XENIX, but I don't think so (I wouldn't
bet any money on it). What I have done for my customers that want to run both
(MS)PC/DOS is to set the machine up so that it boots XENIX as the default, then
I make a floppy that they can put in drive A: when they want to boot DOS. Below
is an example of what I would do.

	1.  First load XENIX (UNIX) on drive C:
	2.  Format and load DOS on drive D:
	3.  Format a floppy disk with system and install the following 
  	    AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the floppy disk (ie: DOS commands will be
            located in D:\DOS)

	--------AUTOEXEC.BAT-------

ECHO OFF
CLS
VERIFY ON
PATH=D:\;D:\DOS
PROMPT $P $G
D:
CD \

	------End of File------

I hope this helps you out...



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					Sincearley,
					Howard D. Leadmon
					Fast Computer Services
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