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From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Ultrix/32 & VMS
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Date: 3 Mar 89 21:11:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: parker@waters.mpr.ca's message of 2 Mar 89 01:36:14 GMT
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>It seems a little ambitious, however, to be able to choose between VMS and
>UNIX at boot time... the file systems are *waaaaaaaay* different. This would
>perhaps be possible if you had a set of disks for UNIX, and a set for VMS.


Actually, something I thought about years ago when in a similar
situation was to get a big disk, set it up for VMS and put all of Unix
into a contiguous VMS file.

It would take some minor changes to the boot, partition and driver
(maybe not anything to the driver as long as the partition info
matched) but seems like it should work, no guarantees, but I thought
I'd pass the idea along. Might make for at least one amusing note to
this group...

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||