vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R Prabhu) (03/17/91)
I would like to seek the help of all readers of the net to solve a peculiar problem which has been troubling me for the past few days, and I have not been able to fix it. I have an AMSTRAD PC-386 machine (IBM clone) with an 80 Mb hard drive and 4 Mb extended RAM. The model is a baby case model and hence it has an internal 3.5" floppy drive and an external 5.25" floppy drive. I have been trying to load the SCO-Xenix development system into my machine but when I first tried it out the machine used to boot up from the hard disk which already contains DOS 4.01. Thinking that transferring the software to 3.5" floppies would solve my problem I did that and tried to load the Xenix system from the 3.5" floppies but now I get the message " Insert SYSTEM disk in drive A : Press Any Key To Continue ", in other words the bootstrap program of the SCO-Xenix distribution itself does not get loaded into the hard drive, thus causing me a lot of frustration. I have already partitioned my hard drive into 30 Mb for my DOS software and 50 Mb for the SCO-Xenix software whenever I am successful in loading it for which I would like to seek your help. I shall be highly obliged for your help in this regard. My e-mail address is " vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu ". Thanking You, With Regards, Vivek.