Hello, while XOSL itself works fine in my environment, Smart Boot Manager does not. It simply won't detect any of my two IDE-CD-drives. The first one is a NEC...
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John McCabe
john_g_mccabe
Jul 24, 2003 10:31 pm
... If you can't find a workaround on the mailing list, then there isn't one. Unfortunately this does appear to be an issue with laptops! Best Regards John...
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spi
spi@...
Jul 24, 2003 6:13 pm
... No, didn't help. ... The Notebook doesn't freeze. Only the keyboard doesn't work. The mailing list is full of messages of not working keyboards on...
3843
John McCabe
john_g_mccabe
Jul 24, 2003 5:59 pm
Try installing without SBM ... Best Regards John McCabe <john@...>...
3842
spi
spi@...
Jul 24, 2003 4:38 pm
Hi all, I installed xosl 1.1.5 (and RPM 2.38 beta 1.9 and SBM 3.64) on a Dell D800 notebook as a dedicated partition on the last logical partition on my...
3841
RodrÃguez Vargas ...
marcov_cr
Jul 24, 2003 3:36 pm
There was a bug in XOSL in connection to extended partitions of type 0x15 (Hidden DOS Extended Partition). This type wasn't seen by XOSL in the Setup Dialog....
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James M. DeLuca
doc_chiron
Jul 24, 2003 10:05 am
Philip Miller: No current distribution that I am aware of uses that partition type designation. 81 is used for data partitions, and 82 is used for swap ...
3839
John McCabe
john_g_mccabe
Jul 24, 2003 8:13 am
... If you look at the XOSL documentation you will see that XOSL needs to be installed on a FAT partition. It won't work from NTFS. The problem with restarting...
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Rami Mohd. Al Nairab
rami77@...
Jul 24, 2003 1:37 am
Dear All, I would like to get some help on a small problem I faced with my windows XP and XOSL. I installed XOSL on the same partition of windows XP....
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Philip Miller
millenixtech
Jul 24, 2003 12:30 am
... No current distribution that I am aware of uses that partition type designation. 81 is used for data partitions, and 82 is used for swap partitions. Philip...
3836
cwilkinsuk
Jul 24, 2003 12:06 am
I have Win 98 and 2 HD's HD0 had 1 Prim Partition which was disabled/hidden. HD1 has (had) several partitions 1st Part -Prim with an Old Win 98 (very old)-...
3835
James M. DeLuca
doc_chiron
Jul 23, 2003 11:17 pm
From: Dan Goodell "derrick_del" wants a recent version of PTEDIT.EXE, the PowerQuest ftp site has ver.1 08/02/99. "Doc_Chiron" wrote: Thats the version on my...
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Philipp G.
philipp0000
Jul 23, 2003 6:36 pm
... [...] ... you should have read the alphabet more carefully: [quote] FD "XOSL": download "XOSL 1.1.5" (or later) and extract it to an empty and formatted...
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Colin Culpitt-Smith
culpittsmith
Jul 23, 2003 8:27 am
Hi Philip - many thanks for your quick & helpful reply. Sorry if I confused you with Q2 ! The XOSL manual says if you wish to abort or bypass XOSL during power...
3832
nobody1261
Jul 23, 2003 5:12 am
... That looks like the version Julian Liu earlier identified as bundled with with PartitonMagic 8. Dan Goodell...
3831
derrick_del
Jul 22, 2003 8:06 pm
... <snip> ... Right after i posted, i realised that there might be a copyright issue, so understood on that. I also did a Google search and found one 498,994...
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Philip Miller
millenixtech
Jul 22, 2003 2:21 pm
... Any software that can make images of disks or partitions that maintains the boot sector and other blocks at the beginning of the disk will work fine. ... ...
3829
culpittsmith
Jul 22, 2003 1:48 pm
I'm hoping you clever folk out there will know the answers to: 1. in the various XOSL notes, it says 'only use XOSL compliant imaging software' - does anyone...
3828
nobody1261
Jul 21, 2003 9:16 pm
... Doc, are you sure? In an earlier post (msg 3447, 2/17/2003) Julian Liu reported his PM8 included a different version. Here are the versions I am aware...
3827
James M. DeLuca
doc_chiron
Jul 21, 2003 7:37 pm
From: "derrick_del" <del_boards@...> ... Thats the version on my PartionMagic8 CD. (except date is 2/8/99 MM/DD/YYYY). Doc Chiron ...
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derrick_del
Jul 21, 2003 2:16 pm
I can't find a late version of PTEDIT.EXE, the latest i've found is 08/02/99. If someone has a later version? could they possibly put it in the "Files"...
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Keith Graber
kgraber@...
Jul 18, 2003 1:20 pm
Hi Del, Use 2 floppies. The first one is your boot disk with the utilities you want. The second will have the XOSL install directory. (I don't put the...
3823
derrick_del
Jul 18, 2003 11:30 am
... <snip> ... I thought i'd better mention that i have RTFM and understood that it tells me i need :- "If you install from floppy (recommended), make sure...
3822
derrick_del
Jul 18, 2003 11:12 am
Hi, first time user and keen to get on with it but i've fallen at the very first hurdle, doesn't bode wel for when it gets complicated does it ;/ As per the...
3821
Orlando Dancourt
scanray1
Jul 15, 2003 7:37 pm
I believe that if you will only have WinXP and installed Linux, you are getting complicated with the XOSL. If you already have the WinXP installed, and a...
3820
nobody1261
Jul 15, 2003 7:13 pm
... Coume, XOSL works outside the operating system, so works with ALL Microsoft OS's. Note: XOSL does not boot linux directly, so XOSL still needs to boot ...
3819
Orlando Dancourt
scanray1
Jul 15, 2003 6:55 pm
You can use the XOSL with the keyboard. Don't install him mouse to the XOSL. ... From: Whipsters To: xosl@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:19 AM...
3818
Whipsters
Jul 15, 2003 4:20 pm
Hi, i Had installed XOSL perfectly on my PC, but I can`t on my notebook, because I only have a USB-mouse or a touchpad. This seems to be not supported because...
3817
Marco De Vitis
starless72
Jul 15, 2003 10:03 am
Hello Coume, on 15/07/2003 at 11.51 you wrote: C> On the website, you never mention win XP, is it not a supported OS? Rather than "supported", I would say...
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Coume
coume.mailinglists@...
Jul 15, 2003 9:51 am
Hello, I just found xosl website and it seems to be exactly what I need! and moreover it is Open source what I really like... anyway, I want to know if I can...
