How to format DOS partition?

I'm trying to allow the booting of either MS-DOS (version 5.00 or 6.22) or
SCO Openserver 5.0.7 from a SCSI drive. At boot time, the "bootos ?"
command shows that there's both a DOS_16 partition (32 MB in size) and an
Osr (8.5 GB in size) partition. (I installed Osr 5.0.7 with the "custom"
partition option.) Osr 5.0.7 boots fine, but when bootong from an MS-DOS
floppy, the MS-DOS fdisk command doesn't see any valid DOS partitions on the
hard drive.

I've booted a couple parttion managers from a bootable CD-ROM, and they see
both partitions, as well as unused space and the master boot record (MBR).

Any suggestions on how I can format the DOS_16 partition so that it will
boot dos when I enter the DOS command at the "boot:" prompt?

Thanks in advance.


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