bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) (08/04/90)
We are about to install a system for a client and want to install both DOS and Xenix on the same drive. I am familiar with the basic procedure (FDISK for DOS, setup DOS FIRST) then install Xenix for the balance of the drive. BUT, the problem comes in with the limitations. The drive on the subject machines is 100mb. According to the documentation we have seen you can setup a max partition of 32mb for dos and use the balance for Xenix. What we would LIKE to do, is to setup 32mb drive C for dos, 36mb for Xenix, and another 32mb drive for dos. Is this possible on one physical drive????? I have not found anything about this at all. This will be a Acer 1100/SX machine with an IDE 100mb drive. 2mb memory, DOS 3.3, SCO Xenix 386 2.3.2, etc.... Any ideas? Thanks for any input.
smwong@hantsv.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong) (08/12/90)
In article <199@consult.UUCP>, bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) writes: |> BUT, the problem comes in with the limitations. The drive on the |> subject machines is 100mb. According to the documentation we have |> seen you can setup a max partition of 32mb for dos and use the |> balance for Xenix. What we would LIKE to do, is to setup 32mb |> drive C for dos, 36mb for Xenix, and another 32mb drive for dos. |> Is this possible on one physical drive????? You can do this by allocating an extended partition of size 32mb from MS-DOS. That is, install a DOS partition (32MB), then use FDISK to install an extended partition (32MB), then install Xenix. But there is one drawback, Xenix dos command (ie, dosls, doscp, etc.) can access the standard DOS partition only, you cannot access files from the extended partition! stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com