two Dos Drives in Vpix

[David H Close]

A recent net question:

>  Has anyone gotten Vpix to recognise two real live disk drives each with 
>  their own Dos partition?  I can edit vpix.cnf and get either drive to be
>  recognized, but if I put in references to both like this:
>  	D			/dev/hd00
>  	E			/dev/hd10
>  then D: is supported, but E: is not.

I run two dos partions on two hard disks regularly.  My vpix.cnf says:
	C			/dev/hd00
	D			/dev/hd10
With this setup, you are running the copy of DOS on hd00.  This can be
whatever is there now or you can use the DOS SYS command from a more
conventional VP/ix session to copy SCO's version.  The only hangup is that
VP/ix actually _boots_ from what it thinks is the C drive.  So, before
starting VP/ix you must use Xenix fdisk to make the DOS partition active.
Once the boot is complete, you can switch screens and restore Xenix as the
active partition.

A by-product of this setup is that DOS scripts and program installations
which record or use drive names will still work.  For example, WP 5.0 setup
can still find its dictionary.

Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas
compata at cup.portal.com