Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager... [...]. I was typing too fast so I didn't notice that the sentence was missing a word.
Oops! ;) Coronya On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Coronya wrote: > System Commander is not a boot manager but if you're considering using it > then beware! I lost a ext2 partition because of this program. I wasn't able to > know what exactly happened but even superblocks seemed to be damaged. This > was the last partition of my harddisk. So if you go on with your idea of > using system commander, then backup! > > On the other hand, I would like to suggest XOSL for that job. It has very > nice features and can be installed on a dedicated partition or a normal dos > partition. It has many features and has been very reliable (I've used it for > a couple of months). Even better, it is free and under the GPL. I can't > suggest enough you take a look at this program since I got nothing but > trouble from system commander. > > If you're interested: > http://www.xosl.org > > PS. Did I mention XOSL is very good looking? ;) > > Coronya > Debianized for now 37 days! > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so > > > far is: > > > 1. installed dos > > > 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine > > > since it doesn't find dos. > > > 3. installed linux. > > > 4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine. > > > 5. if i now change xenix back to fat16 i cannot boot either dos or > > > windows. > > > what i require is a way, in lilo.conf for example, for hiding the dos > > > partition when windows loads and hiding the windows partition when dos > > > loads. how is this possible? could you send a sample lilo.conf? > > > dos is on hda1, win on hda2, linux on hda3 and swap is hda5 (extended. > > > saqib > > > > I would highly recommend System Commander. It is a boot manager that > > will deal with all this seamlessly. You can even have it hide > > partitions, so you can install Windows with DOS already there. Right > > now I have running on my system: DOS 6.22, Win95 OSR2, Windows 2000, > > and Linux. All running just fine. > > > > > > > > -Ken > > > > > > >
