dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) (10/17/90)
I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition from vpix. Can you enlighten me? Thanks. Dick Schlotfeldt dick@cimcor.mn.org St. Paul, MN
bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes: >I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition >from vpix. Can you enlighten me? > You don't say what Unix you're running -- If it's Esix, it can't be done. -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp bill%unixland.uucp@world.std.com Public Access Unix - Esix SYSVR3 - (508) 655-3848
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
=I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition
=from vpix. Can you enlighten me?
=
=Thanks.
=
=Dick Schlotfeldt dick@cimcor.mn.org
=St. Paul, MN
Do you have the dosslice command? If so, run it and note the /dev/...
pathname. Then edit vpix.cnf and associate that /dev/... with drive D.
This, by way of disclaimer, is what works with Simul-Task and SV/386 R3.2.2.
Pete
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Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct18.214826.5940@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: >In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes: >>I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition >>from vpix. Can you enlighten me? > >You don't say what Unix you're running -- If it's Esix, it can't be done. Is this really true? Under AT&T and suchlike products, you run a Unix executable called 'dosslice' which goes out and creates one or more new /dev/rdsk devices corresponding to the DOS partition(s). You then feed these device names to VP/ix in 'vpix.cnf': D /dev/rdsk/0s5 Now what I have noticed is that not everyone seems to have the 'dosslice' program or its equivalent. Some shrinkwrap vendors seem not to include it with their VP/ix products. Therefore the user can't create these devices. But is the kernel support actually there anyway? If you could run, say, the AT&T dosslice, would the resulting devices be usable under Esix? I can't try the experiment, I'm just asking. -- "A man came into the the office one day and said he \|/ Tom Neff was a sailor. We cured him of that." - Mark Twain, -O- tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM on his days as a doctor's apprentice in California. /|\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (10/20/90)
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