Unix / Dos partition problem in ISC 2.0.2

[SSG W.D. Calhoun postmaster]

In article <7785 at tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM*, keithe at tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
* In article <532 at dptechno.UUCP* dave at dptechno.uucp (Dave Lee) writes:
* *Help! I'm having problems getting a unix and dos partition to coexist on
* *my second hard drive.  I setup my second drive with sysadm/addharddisk.
* *...
* *Mounted a /users file system on the 1st partition, coppied some files, 
* *and unmounted /users. Booted 4.0 dos stand alone and formated the dos
* *partition.
* 
* Last I knew VP/ix was compatible with DOS 3.3-created disk drives;
* the DOS 4.01 may be the reason nothing works...

I run 386/ix 2.0.2 and VP/ix 1.1.1 and I have no problem running a DOS 4.01
created partition (<32m) mounted with:

	mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0p1 /dos

/dos being the directory I created as a mount point.  My DOS partition is
the first partition on the drive and starts at sector 0.  I have not tried
with DOS as the second or subsequent partition or with partitions larger
than 32m.  As a sideline, the VP/ix users manual does say that on way to
access a DOS partition is by placing a line:

	D /dev/dsk/0p0

in the vpix.cnf file.  This did not work for me.  I also recall that, as
someone has already said, 0p0 refers to the entire 1st drive.  The only
problem that I had mounting the DOS partition directly was that I was
running out of DOS inodes but a fix listed in the frequently asked
questions posting seems to have taken care of that.
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W.D. Calhoun
The U.S. Army Ordnance School at Fort Belvoir, VA
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