jan@enea.se (Jan Wester) (02/05/91)
I have some problems after trying to install Interactive. The first and serious one is that I cannot find any good information about this partitioning stuff. I have two hard drives and I want to have them partitioned as first drive will contain 15 % DOS and 85 % UNIX. The second one will contain 85 % DOS and 15 % UNIX. The problem is that I cannot reach the DOS-partitions on the second hard drive. I have tried dossette and vpix and nothing will work. Shall I partition with DOS 3.3 or DOS 4 or must I let unix do the dos-partioning ? HELP! I have tried all possibilities I think ! Please, give me a clue !
brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) (02/07/91)
In comp.unix.msdos you write: >I have some problems after trying to install Interactive. >I have tried dossette and vpix and nothing will work. >Shall I partition with DOS 3.3 or DOS 4 or must I let unix do the >dos-partioning ? HELP! Actually, Interactive works fine. Read the manual, but for now edit your system (or local) vpix/vpix.cnf file to include: D: /dev/rdsk/0p0 to mount drive C: (under dos) as D: on your system. If you want to access the DOS partition on the second drive you can use: /etc/mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/1p1 /drived (of course you need to make /drived) then you will be able to access it as z:\drived Hope this helps! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brandon Brown | Internet: brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu | | Coordinated Science Laboratory | UUCP: uiucuxc!addamax!brando!brown | | University of Illinois | CompuServe: 73040,447 | | Urbana, IL 61801 | GEnie: xmg23356, macbrando | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
bob@psitech.com (Bob Posert) (02/08/91)
In article <1991Feb7.024430.26854@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes: >Actually, Interactive works fine. Read the manual, but for now edit your >system (or local) vpix/vpix.cnf file to include: > >D: /dev/rdsk/0p0 to mount drive C: (under dos) as D: on your system. > >If you want to access the DOS partition on the second drive you can use: > >/etc/mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/1p1 /drived (of course you need to make /drived) Be careful not to do *BOTH* of these at the same time, though. You can lose file updates if you write a file under VPIX and then try to use it in unix. Sometimes the old version is kept (and there is no way to get the new version back). BTW, the second method above makes the partition appear as a networked drive, so if you have DOS software that won't work over the network you'll need to use the first method. --Bob -- When an eel bites your leg, and the pain makes you beg, that's a moray! I'm bob@psitech.com or uunet!psitech!bob
hotte@sunrise.in-berlin.de (Horst Laumer) (02/12/91)
jan@enea.se (Jan Wester) writes: >I have some problems after trying to install Interactive. >The first and serious one is that I cannot find any good information about >this partitioning stuff. >I have two hard drives and I want to have them partitioned as first drive >will contain 15 % DOS and 85 % UNIX. >The second one will contain 85 % DOS and 15 % UNIX. >The problem is that I cannot reach the DOS-partitions on the second hard >drive. >I have tried dossette and vpix and nothing will work. >Shall I partition with DOS 3.3 or DOS 4 or must I let unix do the >dos-partioning ? HELP! >I have tried all possibilities I think ! >Please, give me a clue ! With ISC 2.0.2, I had a second disk that came out of another PC and was completely DOS. I reached it by adding D /dev/rdsk/1p0 to my vpix.cnf file. Never tested it with 2.2 so far, but might still work. -- ============================================================================ Horst Laumer, Kantstrasse 107, D-1000 Berlin 12 ! Bang-Adress: Junk-Food INET: hotte@sunrise.in-berlin.de ! for Autorouters -- me -- UUCP: ..unido!fub!geminix!sunrise.in-berlin.de!hotte
src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (02/14/91)
hotte@sunrise.in-berlin.de (Horst Laumer) writes: >jan@enea.se (Jan Wester) writes: >>The problem is that I cannot reach the DOS-partitions on the second hard >>drive. >I reached it by adding >D /dev/rdsk/1p0 >to my vpix.cnf file. Never tested it with 2.2 so far, but might still work. that works with 2.2, however you can also mount the sucker with mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/1p0 /dos which makes it networked (Z:\dos), so you can access it from several vp/ix session with read/write. you'll have to modify /etc/mountall, line 53 to say "[...] 'PROC' | 'DOS')" if that's not the case already. (hello, horst! :-) -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 public source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home