Second hard drive and MS-DOS under Interactive

Horst Laumer hotte at sunrise.in-berlin.de
Tue Feb 12 13:07:01 AEST 1991


jan at 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.


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