Re: XOSL extended operating system loader
Lo, on Sunday, April 15, Jeff H did write:
> Hi. I am new and moving very slowly in ditching windows. I have recently
> been doing some major hardware upgrades and have yet to install debian. I
> have a question. Has anyone been using XOSL? I ran across this site and
> thought it might be interesting as I still have a strong interest in DOS and
> some interest in maintaining my win98 stuff. What do you think? -Jeff H
>
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/home.html
I've only just skimmed the XOSL docs, but it looks like it's a lot more
complicated than you really need. The installation process, in particular,
may be a tad intimidating to someone who's just coming off a Windows
background.
LILO, the traditional Linux bootloader, can handle booting DOS and Windows*
partitions quite nicely; I've been dual-booting for, oh, about 5 years now.
As far as I can tell, the only XOSL feature that LILO doesn't support is
the ability to hide windows partitions and thus allow multiple installs of
Windows on the same machine.
In short: looks cool, but probably not worth the hassle IMO.
Richard
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