The Fourth Ldos Partition
Finally, the most important partition for LDOS. This one will end up being the system drive. First, let's partition it by typing SYSTEM drive 5, disable, driver RSHARD 5 After the header and copyright notice appears, the prompt is once again Enter drive address lt l-2 gt and F R 1 F - gt Same answer as before press lt ENTER gt to The next prompt is Enter partition's number of cylinders 153 - gt Chose the default of 153 cylinders by pressing lt ENTER gt . There is no 'unformatted' warning, and...
System 1
partition 4 - LDOS partition 2 - empty partition 3 - empty partition 1 - LS-DOS LDOS whatever The 5 meg hard drive is at this point capable of running LS-DOS and LDOS. It is indeed quite handy. However, in order to get from LS-DOS to LDOS it is necessary to insert the LDOS boot disk in drive 0 and reboot. There is a better way. Roy Beck wrote an article in TRSTimes 5.1 Jan Feb 1992 about a program called BOOT5 CMD. The author, Alan Rubin, wrote it for LDOS 5.3.0, and we patched it to work with...