When I first tried my current PIII 800 with a WD 30Gb and a Seagate 20Gb, both ATA66, I got troubles that yield me to repartition my secondary master (Seagate), using SC. I then switched to PQ, which worked fine until now.
Coronya wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
