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From: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: disk drive hell (aka /etc/hdinit)
Message-ID: <1106@tness7.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 23:17:03 GMT
References: <689@tness7.UUCP> <187@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney (214+464-2771))
Organization: Southwestern Bell, Network Engineering, Dallas
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Keywords: need some installation advice
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In article <187@turnkey.TCC.COM> jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>How can someone go to all the expense of buying a 386 box and then put an
>ST225 drive in it!!?!

Someone could be broke. :-) Actually, the box came with an 80MB drive.
I put the 20MB in for some extra storage space. Couldn't see throwing
it out in the street yet.

>Also you aren't trying to run Xenix-86 on it too are you???
>My recommendation would be that now that you have spent $X000
>on a state of the art box the least you could do is pay a few hundred
>for an AT-class drive (~40Meg) and run an OS that
>will utilize your hardware!!!

Just messing around until the 386 software arrives. The insanity
is due to having a new box with nothing but DOS to run on it.