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Don Williams

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Nov 28, 2007, 10:47:02 PM11/28/07
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Does anyone know how to overcome the 1024 virtual cylinder limit for booting
OSR 5.xx when running Windows and Unix on the same box?

Don Williams


RedGrittyBrick

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Nov 29, 2007, 5:20:05 AM11/29/07
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Don Williams wrote:
> Does anyone know how to overcome the 1024 virtual cylinder limit for booting
> OSR 5.xx when running Windows and Unix on the same box?
>

The only way I know to install OSR5 for dual boot is to reorganise the
Windows partitions so that there is sufficient room in the first 1024
cylinders for an OSR5 boot partition.

I suppose a workaround is to use something like Vmware.

Richard Seeder

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Nov 29, 2007, 10:32:52 AM11/29/07
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I have OSR5 running on VMware Workstation under Windows (Vista, no
less) on my notebook and it works perfectly. Much better than the
dual-boot setup I used to use, plus you can run older OSR5 versions
without worrying about processors, cyylinders, etc.

--
Richard Seeder.

Don Williams

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Nov 29, 2007, 10:16:52 PM11/29/07
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"Richard Seeder" <aa...@att.net> wrote in message
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Thanks,

I'll take a look at it. (VMware, that is) I failed to mention that the
basic problem I have is that when I first set up that system I could get by
with the 8 Gb available for deive C:. Now, as I upgrade to newer versions
of windows this is far too small. It's not possible to install Vista, even
if I wanted to.

The system with the problem has 7 hard drives, one shared between Win XP Pro
and OSR5. Windows has to itself 3 EIDE drives, and one serial drive. Unix
owns 2 SCSI drives. It's going to be a big job to re-structure all this,
but it has to be done I suppose.

Didn't plan it that way, it jusst grew likt Topsey.

DAW


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