dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) (10/17/90)
I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition from vpix. Can you enlighten me? Thanks. Dick Schlotfeldt dick@cimcor.mn.org St. Paul, MN
bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes: >I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition >from vpix. Can you enlighten me? > You don't say what Unix you're running -- If it's Esix, it can't be done. -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp bill%unixland.uucp@world.std.com Public Access Unix - Esix SYSVR3 - (508) 655-3848
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
=I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition
=from vpix. Can you enlighten me?
=
=Thanks.
=
=Dick Schlotfeldt dick@cimcor.mn.org
=St. Paul, MN
Do you have the dosslice command? If so, run it and note the /dev/...
pathname. Then edit vpix.cnf and associate that /dev/... with drive D.
This, by way of disclaimer, is what works with Simul-Task and SV/386 R3.2.2.
Pete
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Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct18.214826.5940@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: >In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes: >>I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition >>from vpix. Can you enlighten me? > >You don't say what Unix you're running -- If it's Esix, it can't be done. Is this really true? Under AT&T and suchlike products, you run a Unix executable called 'dosslice' which goes out and creates one or more new /dev/rdsk devices corresponding to the DOS partition(s). You then feed these device names to VP/ix in 'vpix.cnf': D /dev/rdsk/0s5 Now what I have noticed is that not everyone seems to have the 'dosslice' program or its equivalent. Some shrinkwrap vendors seem not to include it with their VP/ix products. Therefore the user can't create these devices. But is the kernel support actually there anyway? If you could run, say, the AT&T dosslice, would the resulting devices be usable under Esix? I can't try the experiment, I'm just asking. -- "A man came into the the office one day and said he \|/ Tom Neff was a sailor. We cured him of that." - Mark Twain, -O- tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM on his days as a doctor's apprentice in California. /|\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (10/20/90)
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stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure) (10/20/90)
In article <15974@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: +In article <1990Oct18.214826.5940@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: +>In article <1990Oct17.160116.27818@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes: +>>I haven't figured out yet how to access a dos (3.3) partition +>>from vpix. Can you enlighten me? +> +>You don't say what Unix you're running -- If it's Esix, it can't be done. + +Is this really true? + +Under AT&T and suchlike products, you run a Unix executable called +'dosslice' which goes out and creates one or more new /dev/rdsk devices +corresponding to the DOS partition(s). You then feed these device names +to VP/ix in 'vpix.cnf': + + D /dev/rdsk/0s5 + +Now what I have noticed is that not everyone seems to have the +'dosslice' program or its equivalent. Some shrinkwrap vendors seem not +to include it with their VP/ix products. Therefore the user can't +create these devices. But is the kernel support actually there anyway? +If you could run, say, the AT&T dosslice, would the resulting devices be +usable under Esix? I can't try the experiment, I'm just asking. Does dosslice do anything more than mknod for the dos slice? A simple prtvtoc tells you which one it is. V.4 has this node for you already. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve email: Steve.McClure@Columbia.NCR.COM 803-791-7054 The above are my opinions, which NCR doesn't really care about anyway! CAUSER's Amiga BBS! | 803-796-3127 | 8pm-8am 8n1 | 300/1200/2400
rickf@pmafire.UUCP (rick furniss) (10/21/90)
I,m not sure why no one has answered this question properly,
unless I just dont understand it correctly ??.
Anyway, the Question: how to (access/use) a dos partition from vpix
using ISC2.2 Unix ?
Answer: Add this line to your /usr/vpix/default/vpix.cnf file , or each
users $HOME/vpix/vpix.cnf file,
D /dev/rdsk/0p0"
This accesses the first partition on the first hard disk, which
is where I,m assuming you have your DOS partition at. If not
change as needed.
Make sure the permissions on /dev/rdsk/0p0 are as you want,
then let'em rip.
PS: I wont mention the security issues at hand.
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