cramerk@motcid.UUCP (Kristin J Cramer) (02/08/91)
I seem to be having a problem with simulatask 2.0 (left over from AT&T) and Esix V 3.2 and a second drive. I would like to have the second drive all DOS and the first drive all UNIX. I can boot Unix off the hard drive and DOS off the floppy and change command.com to the second drive. BUT I can't get simultask to boot dos from unix with the second drive. Ideally I would like to replace the vpix.cnf C: spec to the second drive (but the D: spec would be sufficient). Well I tried to run dosslice - It gave an invalid device - so I ran diskadd - it would not let me do it unless I made a UNIX partition on the second drive of at least 49% (This is not diserable - but I tried it). Then I boot dos and get a message like the following: ERROR 6 trying to access D: How do I simultask(VPIX) to use the second drive as the boot drive (or as d: drive) without using part of the disk as a unix partition Thanks in advance Kris Cramer
protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) (02/08/91)
From article <4555@ash14.UUCP>, by cramerk@motcid.UUCP (Kristin J Cramer): > I seem to be having a problem with simulatask 2.0 (left over from > AT&T) and Esix V 3.2 and a second drive. > > I would like to have the second drive all DOS and the first drive all > UNIX. I can boot Unix off the hard drive and DOS off the floppy and > change command.com to the second drive. > I think I have a solution. This assumes that one drive is big enough to hold both DOS and the ESIX /root partition. Take the bigger drive and make 2 partitions on it. Partion 1 should be for DOS. Make it as big as your second disk, or whatever size you want for DOS. The drive should have at about 30 MB for partition #2 (for ESIX). Install DOS on this first partition. Now Install ESIX on the second partition. Just make one filesystem on this drive: /. Now add the second drive with diskadd under ESIX. You can have the /usr partition on this second drive. ESIX should be more efficient using 2 drives, and you can now use Simultask to access the partition on the first drive; if you don't have a dos partition on the second drive, you won't have that problem. Your dos partition will now be D: under simultask. I don't know if you can make it C: This way, you can even use fdisk to change the active partition and boot Unix or DOS! -- Mike Protofanousis msp@pronet.chi.il.us uunet!motcid!protofan