Dos and unix on same Disk

[Steve Blair]

[following are related to DELL UNIX, but apply to others]

UNIX & DOS can peacefully co-exist on the same disk, in our
releases at least. Very few things can cause them to not
exist. Usually I format the system disk, make a partition
for DOS & UNIX(default boot partition), install UNIX, then go
and format c:, and install DOS.

The only real gotcha that I can see from your post(below) is
the addition of DOS 4.0 . Many UNIX implementations can not
deal with DOS *higher* than(!!) 3.3 .

Try loading 3.3 DOS, and see if that's more reliable.....



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Steve Blair	DELL	UNIX	DIVISION sblair at upurbmw.dell.com
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In article <13719 at ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, justicec at handel.cs.colostate.edu (Christopher Justice) writes:
|> I'm having a problem installing both AT+T System V R3.2.2 and Dos 4.0 on the 
|> same disk drive.  I partioned the drive (330 meg) into an 80 meg Dos 
|> partition and the rest for unix.  They installed succesfully, but Dos gives
|> me a "General failure reading drive C:" when I try to run programs.  This
|> happens irregularly.  Unix has given me a couple of "unrequested harddrive
|> interrupt errors". 
|> 
|> Our computer Vendor is trying to tell us that you can not install unix
|> and dos on the same drive, or possibly that dos can not take up more than
|> 9% of the drive.  I find this hard to believe.  If Dos and unix are on
|> different partitions, it shouldn't matter.  
|> 
|> Is using Dos and unix on the same drive common?  Can you do this?  I'd like
|> to hear about your experience with doing this.
|> 
|> Thank you!
|> 
|> Chris Justice
|> justicec at cs.colostate.edu
|> Chris Justice                          
|> justicec at cs.colostate.edu