ccv@lambda.UUCP (Curt Villars) (12/12/86)
I need some help with my ibm at. I just inherited an ibm at, that has the fixed disk partitioned. the problem is that the fixed disk (68 meg) is partitioned: 20 meg for dos and the rest for xenix. i don't need xenix, and i need more than 20 meg for dos. how do i go about releasing the hard disk from xenix and increasing the dos partition? Thanks, Curt Villars !bellcore!gamma!ccv
romwa@utcs.UUCP (12/17/86)
>I need some help with my ibm at. >I just inherited an ibm at, that has >the fixed disk partitioned. the problem is that >the fixed disk (68 meg) is partitioned: 20 meg for dos >and the rest for xenix. > >i don't need xenix, and i need more than 20 meg for dos. > >how do i go about releasing the hard disk from xenix >and increasing the dos partition? I have had to switch from XENIX to DOS a couple of times. Short of using DEBUG and doing a low level format of the fixed disk, you can boot XENIX from the distribution floppies and run fdisk from there to wipe out the XENIX partition. Stop the installation program at that point and boot up DOS and begin with fdisk there. The disk should be clean. Good Luck
berger@clio.Uiuc.ARPA (12/18/86)
To start with, you should be aware that the PC-DOS device drivers won't accomodate a disk bigger than 30 megabytes. You need some- body elses' software to really take advantage of the larger disk. One program that will work is the Golden Bow Systems Vfeature Deluxe, which lets you use disks up to 256 meg, logically address separate drives as a single volume, or make one drive into several logical volumes.
news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) (12/18/86)
Organization : California Institute of Technology Keywords: vfeature, fixed disks From: tim@tomcat.Caltech.Edu (Tim Kay) Path: tomcat!tim >>the fixed disk (68 meg) is partitioned: 20 meg for dos >>and the rest for xenix. >>i don't need xenix, and i need more than 20 meg for dos. You might try Vfeature from Golden Bow Systems, $80. Apparently the package allows you to use different disk partitions as different disks (C: and D:). I have been told that you could leave the 20 M partition untouched but reformat the xenix partition as your D: disk. Their Vfeature Deluxe ($120) allows you to break the 32 Megabyte limit, so you could use the 68 M disk as a single disk. This is probably more than you need, and you might have to reformat the whole disk to do it this way. I don't know. Golden Bow Systems 2870 Fifth Ave., Suite 201 San Diego, CA 92103 619/298-9349 Timothy L. Kay tim@csvax.caltech.edu Department of Computer Science Caltech, 256-80 Pasadena, CA 91125
michael@orcisi.UUCP (12/18/86)
> You might try Vfeature from Golden Bow Systems, $80. Apparently > the package allows you to use different disk partitions as different > disks (C: and D:). I have been told that you could leave the 20 M > partition untouched but reformat the xenix partition as your D: disk. Something similar is available from Mountain Computer, Inc. for their hard disks. Its called the "Mountain Hard Disk Utilities". Mountain Computer, Inc. 300 El Pueblo Rd. Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (408) 438-6650