brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (11/30/86)
Quoted from <2255@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> ["DOS --> XENIX --> DOS"], by osbook@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (osbook)... +--------------- | To build FDISK.XEN you need to know what responses FDISK expects to change the | active partition from #4 to #2. These responses are (check it yourself on your | own system): | | 2 <enter> | 2 <enter> | <escape> <escape> | | Note that there are no <return>'s after the <escape>'s. | Note: When you execute XENIX.BAT and FDISK works automatically, you will hear | two beeps. Don't worry, it's okay. +--------------- I use this technique to switch from DOS to Concurrent CP/M for a real-time application we have. The spurious beeps are caused by the fact that <enter> is stored as <cr> <lf>, while FDISK expects only <cr>. Create a file contai- ning only the characters: 2 <cr> 2 <cr> <esc> <esc> This will *silently* cause FDISK to change the boot partition. I created our batch file by typing 2 ALT-013 2 ALT-013 ALT-027 ALT-027 at PC-WRITE (a great shareware screen editor). ++Brandon -- ``for is he not of the Children of Luthien? Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'' --J. R. R. Tolkien /-----------//***/ Brandon S. Allbery: cbatt!cwruecmp!ncoast!tdi2!brandon /--- ------//***/ Tridelta Industries, Inc. / //---, /---/ 7350 Corporate Blvd. +1 216 255 1080 /--//---~ /---/ Mentor, Ohio 44060 HOME: +1 216 974 9210