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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: hard disk
Keywords: new fixed disk, preparation for minix
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Date: 1 Mar 90 08:21:02 GMT
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Help!  I just got a new Seagate-4096 80Mbyte hard disk.  I want to put
both DOS (yech) and minix partitions on this disk.  I don't yet have
minix, but I will be getting it.

Some software came with the disk (from Everex).  This software allows
for creating logical drives, and formatting them.  Also included is a
driver evdisk.sys that allows DOS to access the "extended DOS
partition".  Software was not included for creating non-DOS partitions.

What should I do?  Does minix use DOS partitions, or does minix come
with software for creating a minix partition on the hard disk?  Can a
minix partition be created, only for minix's use?  Since I have created
the DOS partition at the beginning of the disk, the minix partition will
have to go at the end.  Is this a problem?  Can minix boot from it's
partition, or should I boot from DOS and then mount the minix partition
onto the minix file system.

Please e-mail your response, as I still have more than 200 messages to
read.  I will summarize and post if there is interest in the answers to
these questions.  Thank you.

By the way, I have Tanenbaum's book, Operating Systems Design and
Implementation, and I have RTFM; I didn't find answers for my questions.

Ken Hendrickson N8DGN        kjh@usc.edu        ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh