> Im trying to get SCO 4 to boot my dos drive and having some
> probs. First SCO is on a 1.7gig drive and I have my Windows on a
> 3.8gig drive and I do not have the means to back it up and reinstall
> it after I do the fdisk from SCO as the install guide suggests. Is
> there another program that I can use to do this. Something like lilo?
> Would it be possible to backup the first partion of the 3.8 to another
> disk using drivecopy then delete that partion from the SCO fdisk
> recreate the partition and drivecopy that info back onto it then beable
> to boot
> and mount it? any and all advice is appreciated
Neither "SCO Unix Version 4" nor "SCO 4" is a very useful identifier;
run `uname -X` and give the actual release next time. And I really
don't know how you fit SCO onto a 1.7GB drive -- the company has
terabytes of storage, you must have some amazing compression algorithm.
Anyway, the PC architecture really likes you to boot from the first
drive in the system. Software exists to get around this limitation, but
it's difficult. The easiest way to set up what you're asking about is
to have a small bootable DOS partition on the same first drive as your
large Unix partition. e.g. you might have 1.67GB of Unix and 30MB of
DOS. Then you can boot DOS, type "D:", and get access to the 3.8GB of
Windows on the other drive. This is much easier to do if you make the
DOS partition before installing Unix; if you've already installed Unix
to consume the entire disk, you have to backup and, in effect, reinstall
Unix.
Several third-party backup utilities such as Lone-Tar, BackupEDGE, CTAR,
and BRU, have "crash recovery" utilities that are easy to use for this
sort of thing.
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