Problem with Xenix 2.2.1 with 2 Hard Disks

barton barton at holston.UUCP
Sat Aug 19 04:19:09 AEST 1989


In article <7748 at charlie.OZ>, vortex at charlie.OZ (Mark Gregson) writes:
> 
> 	cannot find a dos partition. It appears to me that to
> 	get xenix to boot the dos partition on the second 
> 	physical drive there must be some kind of a xenix 
> 	partition on that drive.
> 
It's acutally the opposite. According to the release notes for
2.2.1 you could maintain a small dos partition on drive 0, then
typing "dos" at Xenix Boot: would boot dos on drive C then you
could just C> D: <Return> and you would be on D drive which could
be totally DOS.

Hope this helps.
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