I'm having problems multibooting Windows 98 and Windows ME on my system. I have an Epox 8k5a3+ mobo with 6 IDE connectors (1 primary, 1 secondary and 4 RAID) I...
Hi: I've read the manuals, faq's and searched the archives some and haven't quite found what I'm looking for. My situation: I have a current multiboot system...
... primary, ... all ... drives ... do ... 2 ... then ... Can ... on ... At first, did you clear MBR on all three HDDs before installing XOSL? You should run...
Hi, I am just a newbie and trying to boot up with DRDOS (in order to install XOSL). I used the RAWRITE that is coming with DRDOS and MAKE a floppy for bootin....
I have a laptop that has XOSL installed on it. It came preinstalled with the software. The computer is a Thinkpad A30 which I received when I was attending...
If you install XOSL anew, it will destroy the password, but it will also destroy the configuration. If you feel that you are capable of recreating the...
I found the source of the problem and solved it. Regards, Ramin ... install XOSL). I used the RAWRITE that is coming with DRDOS and ... from the mirror site...
Well, it might be a trivial thing for you guys but for me it took some effort to get it. At first i had clicked the rawrite which had come with DRDOS inside...
I don't care about the configurations but I want to make sure I don't loose anything on the HDD. I need this information for my job. If I install the XOSL...
I use XOSL to boot into a number of OSs, most of which are on logical drives. To ensure correct booting, I use ptedit.exe (V1.0) and set the value of "Hidden...
Stop using ptedit, and just use XOSL's hiding mechanism. It works great for the rest of us. Phil ... From: <fritznlang@...> To: <xosl@yahoogroups.com> ...
I use XOSL's hiding mechanism extensively. The snag is that my whole NT installation resides on a logical drive, including its boot files, and to make this...
yeah: what do you mean getting us all excited and then going away without "the details"! You know you can't always tell if we're laughing at any stupid...
Hi, I sort of succeeded to install xosl on my computer as follows: 1- Installed Suse Linux 8.1pro and used its partition manager to partition the hard disk....
I don't quite know the reason. But i guess apparently the black environment inside windows is not a real DOS environment but a virtual one. When i booted up...
The problem as it appears to me is that you failed to hide the Win2K partition before trying to install XP. When installing OSs, one should try to isolate them...
... error. ... Though i am myself a novice in this regard, But thing i can suggest is using ranish Partition Manager (boot from floopy and run it). Check what...
Thanks Phill for your prompt reply. I did use ranish to hide partitions! In particular the first time i needed it to do this because i had installed win2K on...
Hi, is it a known problem that it is nearly impossible to install winxp pro and win2000 and muliboot them? (All partions mentioned after here are primaries)...
Problem solved. After much searching I found a partition editor capable of edititing the boot sector of a logical NTFS partition. I set the value of the...
Want to post how you did it and where you got the partition editor for us to know? ... <fritznlang@...> wrote: > Problem solved. After much searching I...
Several hours later: - I used Disk Editor (http://www.acronis.com/). Quite a nice package although the English in the documentation is a bit funny. - I...
I got a question... I'm in a computer class right now and I'm using a Removable HD that I can take back and forth from school to home. What I want to do with ...
hi i have installed xosl on my system as my boot loader . Is there any option to uninstall it? suman ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful....
Hi, Well you can just boot up from floppy again and run "install.exe" but this time choose the option "uninstall". I did this and uninstall XOSL once. However...
... If Pri 1 w2k is NTFS, you're screwed. Best order is the reverse of what you have. XOSL should be first so it can handle the boot most effectively. MS-DOS ...
Hi, Eventually i managed to install DrDOS and win2000 and Suse Linux through XOSL. This time i first installed DrDOS on the first primary partition, used suse...
... that I ... with ... MS-DOS ... Thanks...That's what I figured (putting MS-DOS first) And no..I'm not using NTFS. I've had my run-ins with it before -jC!...