Simultask 2.0 / ESIX V3.2 / 2nd Drive
Mike S. Protofanousis
protofan at motcid.UUCP
Fri Feb 8 11:36:05 AEST 1991
>From article <4555 at ash14.UUCP>, by cramerk at motcid.UUCP (Kristin J Cramer):
> I seem to be having a problem with simulatask 2.0 (left over from
> AT&T) and Esix V 3.2 and a second drive.
>
> I would like to have the second drive all DOS and the first drive all
> UNIX. I can boot Unix off the hard drive and DOS off the floppy and
> change command.com to the second drive.
>
I think I have a solution. This assumes that one drive is big
enough to hold both DOS and the ESIX /root partition.
Take the bigger drive and make 2 partitions on it.
Partion 1 should be for DOS. Make it as big as your second disk,
or whatever size you want for DOS. The drive should have at
about 30 MB for partition #2 (for ESIX).
Install DOS on this first partition. Now Install ESIX on the
second partition. Just make one filesystem on this drive: /.
Now add the second drive with diskadd under ESIX.
You can have the /usr partition on this second drive.
ESIX should be more efficient using 2 drives, and you can
now use Simultask to access the partition on the first drive; if
you don't have a dos partition on the second drive, you won't
have that problem.
Your dos partition will now be D: under simultask. I don't know
if you can make it C:
This way, you can even use fdisk to change the active partition
and boot Unix or DOS!
--
Mike Protofanousis
msp at pronet.chi.il.us
uunet!motcid!protofan
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