4-4 Installing and Configuring SCO UNIX 5.04
Reconfiguring the DOS Partition
Your system ships with its primary hard drive formatted with a 50MB MS-
DOS® partition. This partition can be removed or reconfigured before you load
your SCO OpenServer Rel. 5.04 software and applications. You can, if you
wish, create a new DOS partition as long as it leaves enough disk space for your
SCO OpenServer Rel. 5.04 software and applications.
Refer to your SCO OpenServer Rel. 5.04 Handbook and SCO OpenServer Rel.
5.04 Release Notes in this document before starting the installation.
If your system does not include a Disk Array Controller (DAC960PG), your
primary boot disk drive is formatted with a single 50MB MS-DOS partition and
MS-DOS is preinstalled on this drive.
If you have a Disk Array Controller (DAC960PG) preinstalled on your system,
it is configured as “Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD)”. The primary boot drive is
formatted with a single 50MB MS-DOS partition and MS-DOS is preinstalled
on this drive.
If you want to reconfigure the size of the DOS partition perform the following
procedure:
!
CAUTION
When reconfiguring the DOS partition all data on non-
removable disk drive C: will be lost!
1.
Boot your system from the DOS partition and execute some DOS commands
(CHKDSK, for example) to verify that your system was not damaged during
shipment and that the keyboard and monitor are properly installed and
working.
2.
Create a bootable DOS diskette by inserting a blank diskette and entering:
format a: /s
3.
Copy the fdisk command to the bootable diskette by entering:
copy c:\DOS\fdisk.exe a:
4.
Follow the appropriate step below:
If your system does not include an NEC SecuRAID 530 (Mylex
AcceleRAID 1100) Disk Array Controller, boot the system from the
bootable diskette created in Steps 2 and 3. Use the DOS fdisk command
to create a small active DOS partition on Drive C: If you do not intend to
use the DOS partition, a minimum size of 20MB is recommended.
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