fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) (10/28/89)
I'm trying to install IBM Xenix on a Zenith Z-248-12 with two ST-251-1 hard drives (each one is 42 Mb). I've ruled out problems with the hard drive (The drive is being formatted at the time this was written). So my question now is: Does Xenix have problems installing when the two hard disks are the same? The second drive has MS-DOS 3.3 on it. Thanks. -- Thank you and happy hunting! Actually: Ethan M. Young ____ [> SB <] "Travel IS life" Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu /__ -=>??<=- - Irwin M. Fargo Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet / ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990
akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (10/29/89)
>I've ruled out problems with the hard drive (The drive is being formatted at >the time this was written). So my question now is: Does Xenix have problems >installing when the two hard disks are the same? Not in my installation - I am running two drives that are 1024*8 RLL'ed without problems (other than a bad 20 conductor ribbon cable).
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/31/89)
I have run Xenix on multiple hard disks on several systems. Works fine. When running a DOS partition on a Xenix disk you may have better luck creating the DOS partition first. There was a funniness about the partition table and some versions of DOS, which resulted in a problem when you did it the wrong way round. I will add that I used to have a lot of problems which went away when I switched to PC-DOS instead of MS-DOS. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon