Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux
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
>
>
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