Re: fdisk partition

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From: romwa
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1986 14:40

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>I need some help with my ibm at.
>I just inherited an ibm at, that has
>the fixed disk partitioned.  the problem is that
>the fixed disk (68 meg) is partitioned: 20 meg for dos
>and the rest for xenix.
>
>i don't need xenix, and i need more than 20 meg for dos.
>
>how do i go about releasing the hard disk from xenix
>and increasing the dos partition?

I have had to switch from XENIX to DOS a couple of times.
Short of using DEBUG and doing a low level format of the
fixed disk, you can boot XENIX from the distribution 
floppies and run fdisk from there to wipe out the XENIX
partition.  Stop the installation program at that point
and boot up DOS and begin with fdisk there.  The disk 
should be clean.

Good Luck

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Subject: Re: fdisk partition
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Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 09:40:26 EST
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