phillips@qut.edu.au (03/27/91)
I have a network of 386/386sx machines running AT&T system V release 4.0 and possibly DOS. The two 386's will act as fileservers with the 386sx workstations mounting filesystems from the servers. What I would like to do is have each machine run both DOS and UNIX with the user allowed to choose rather than having half dedicated Dos machines and the other half dedicated Unix mahines. From reading this newsgroup I know it has been done multiple times but I have a major limitation. That is the workstations have only a 40MB hard disk. The installation of the SYSV Unix demands 97% of the hard disk as the minimum configuration. This leaves a grand total of 1.2MB for DOS. What I need is something like 1) pc-nfs or LAN manager to mount the needed DOS filesystems from the server and a boot program like "bootmenu" to give the user the chose. (I have tried this, pc-nfs install program complains that there isn't enough space and the bootmenu program would boot my unix partition) or 2) do away with the DOS partition and have a DOS emulation program for the Unix, something like dosmerge or vpix. If anyone can help or suggest alternatives I would be mightly grateful. Also , help with getting bootmenu going would be great. Please e-mail me at doug@water.fit.qut.edu.au or the above address. Doug Phillips Faculty of Info Tech QUT Queensland , Aus
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (03/29/91)
phillips@qut.edu.au writes: > workstations have only a 40MB hard disk. The installation of the SYSV Unix > demands 97% of the hard disk as the minimum configuration. This leaves > a grand total of 1.2MB for DOS. Why not nfs mount the much of the unix stuff from your unix server system. this would give you much more room for the dos stuff. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170