Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux
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
> >
> >
>
>
>
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