DOS & UNIX co-existence on AT&T 6386s: guidelines sought
Dr. Scump
aland at infmx.UUCP
Thu Dec 21 08:09:45 AEST 1989
Subject line pretty much says it. We are getting a bunch of 6386s
(6386/25 WGS and 6383E/33) on which we'd like to run both DOS 3.3
and UNIX V 3.2.2. Are there any special tricks for doing so?
My initial plan is to build a moderate DOS partition on one of the
drives (all machines will have 2 ESDI drives) and be able to boot
into either DOS (not Simultask; regular DOS) or UNIX.
As far as I know, the 6386s do not have inherent dual-boot capability,
so I plan to have the primary UNIX partition as the boot partition
and boot DOS from floppy when needed. Is this off-base? Can I have
a DOS partition sitting on one of the drives that comes into play
only when I boot from a DOS diskette, and have all of the UNIX
partitions recognizeable when I boot UNIX?
I expect that a number of people have tried such things. As I think
this would be of general interest, posted responses are fine. Email's
fine, too -- I will summarize any email responses. (If any email
respondents want their comments *omitted* from a summary, say so in
the email).
Also, any configuration tips/advice would be appreciated. (Email)
Quick note on the planned configurations:
6386/25 6386/33
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16 MB memory 16-24 MB memory
1 135MB ESDI drive 2 300 MB ESDI drives
1 300MB ESDI drive
both
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AT&T UNIX System V/386 Rel 3.2.2 and MS-DOS 3.3
AT&T 125MB Streaming tape unit
AT&T 329M VGA card & VDC600 VGA monitor
AT&T 2400 baud external modem
Consensys PowerPorts 16-terminal serial controller
Consensys PowerStor caching ESDI disk controller
3Com 3C503 Ethernet card (also for use with PC-NFS under DOS)
Thanks in advance.
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