Re: Booting xenix/microport unix from drives other than C:

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From: John Plocher
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1986 21:54

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james@reality1.UUCP asks:
>Is it possible to boot Xenix or Microport's unix from a second hard disk?  

NO - Xenix (IBM/uSoft 2.0) can ONLY boot from hard disk 0 (C:)
BUT - The Xenix boot routine allows you to select either the Xenix or the
      DOS partition.  This allows you to segregate your 20 meg drive 0
      into 19.5M for Xenix, and 500K for DOS, which should be enuf to
      put a config.sys and an autoexec.bat to movve you over to D:.
      a judicious SUBST C:=D: then makes DOS think that Drive 1 (which
      really is D:) is C:.
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From: plocher@puff.wisc.edu (John Plocher)
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Subject: Re: Booting xenix/microport unix from drives other than C:
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Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 16:54:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  4 16:54:27 1986
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