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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!dold
- From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
- Subject: Re: What is best was to run DOS and Unix on same box?
- References: <142210@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.012703.9126@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:27:03 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- From article <142210@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, by booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian):
-
- > Another possibility, unless I am mistaken, would be to create a separate
- > bootable partition from where DOS would run. If I can't partition a disk
-
- If you run an emulator (Merge under SCO), you might find that some things
- actually run faster, due to intelligent caching and paging of disk data and
- executable code.
- You might also find that some things run poorly, and printers and special
- devices are nearly impossible to configure.
- She could even be set up with a login of "dos" to drop directly into a DOS
- environment.
- But what happens when the system hangs, or she gets into a program where she
- wants to reboot? ALT-CTRL-DEL doesn't work, and the RESET button might be a
- little upsetting to your UNIX file system.
-
- A separate DOS partition is a much better idea. It won't cost any money
- (support is already in SCO and others for a bootable DOS partition), and SCO
- even allows you to mount the DOS partition, so you can do UNIX backups to
- tape, as well as modify config files with vi, maybe control them with SCCS...
-
- You can configure the /etc/default/boot string to boot DOS by default,
- instead of UNIX. And she'll have a true DOS box, with no complaints
- warranted, except for the disk space you stole.
-
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