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3853
... Thanx Dan, So I could use the Western Digital utility or Fdisk to partition and format the FAT32 and FAT16 partitions ahead of time. Then use ptedit or...
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Aug 1, 2003
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3854
hi! made multiboot for 2 different W98 systems on same HD with Ranish PM 240/243: 2 PRI in FAT 16 of 700 Mb for each W98. 1 EXT in FAT 32 LBA with 6 logic...
pdh_presse
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Aug 1, 2003
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3857
1) this is an english speaking forum 2) i think installing xosl on a dedicated partition is the best thing to do : on a 7mo logical drive inside an extended...
Gregory Pakosz
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Aug 1, 2003
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3858
... Yes, you've got the gist of it. However, I didn't see a mention of linux in your earlier message. That complicates things because it means you want to...
nobody1261
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Aug 1, 2003
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Dan said ... ... Maybe there is a third choice if it's exactly three M$ OS's and Linux, since Linux is perfectly happy in the extended partition (three...
Rodríguez Vargas M...
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Aug 2, 2003
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3860
... Hmm, you're right. You count better than I do. <g> Oh well, we already know I ain't so good at countin' -- I referred to the type-code in the partition...
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3861
... Hmmm... I created all my partitions using the WD utility and only the first partition is primary. I installed 98 to that and all the other partitions are...
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3862
... That's the way fdisk does it too -- it will only create one primary partition because (officially) DOS/Win9x only support one primary. However, if you...
nobody1261
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Aug 2, 2003
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3863
... to ... you've ... **************** Hi All! I am a little confused here and I have RTFM and all the posts. Could someone please tell me exactly how XOSL...
jogya
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Aug 4, 2003
9:27 am
3865
... Answer 1: Yes. XOSL won't make the partition, but it will convert an existing partition. So, first create a small (8-16MB will do) FAT logical partition...
nobody1261
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Aug 5, 2003
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3866
... an ... in ... to ... entanglement ... the ... Thanks very much. I did exactly that but no luck. Where did I go wrong ? The process followed by me was/is as...
jogya
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Aug 5, 2003
4:42 am
3867
... It sounds to me like maybe XP didn't get installed correctly, but I'm at a loss to understand why it would work with pqboot and not XOSL. One thing I don't...
nobody1261
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Aug 5, 2003
5:18 am
3868
... I'm ... XOSL. ... and ... in ... and ... give ... Dear Dan, Thanks for the quick reply. I installed XP with P(0) hidden. Boot.ini and ntldr are in P(1) -...
jogya
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Aug 5, 2003
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3869
... The Disk Management results aren't crucial. I suspect they'll show P (1) is both the system and boot partition, which would be consistent and expected...
nobody1261
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Aug 5, 2003
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3870
... again ... item ... ************************** Thanks Dan ! Will do tonight. Am in office and neck deep in work. Will be travelling tomorrow but will...
jogya
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Aug 5, 2003
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3871
... XP ... something ... ******************************* Dan! I tried to put the XOSL in P(0)- Win 98 partition instead of a separate partition for itself. It...
jogya
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3872
... Too bad we didn't figure out what the problem was, but I'm glad you got it working....
nobody1261
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Aug 6, 2003
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3873
... I hope this is what your last line said only differently: 1 PRIMARY EXTENDED LBA (Type 0F) of 118 Gb . (there is no real or implied file system type...
James M. DeLuca
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Aug 7, 2003
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3874
... Dan, I tried again last night to have XOSL in separate partition and boot from there as discussed before. No luck. Same problem Win 98 on P(0) works great...
jogya
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Aug 8, 2003
9:57 am
3875
... you ... boot ... (0) ... *************** Dan, I tried again to have XOSL in separate partition and boot from there. Guess what - it worked! Thanks a lot...
jogya
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Aug 11, 2003
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3876
... I don't have a solution, but I have Win98 in a primary FAT32 partition, WinXP in a primary NTFS partition, and XOSL in a dedicated logical partition. XOSL...
Bob Coleman
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Aug 11, 2003
10:07 pm
3877
... An XOSL installation doesn't touch the OS partitions, so since it worked under pqboot and with XOSL in P(0), that proves the XP partition is fine. It...
nobody1261
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Aug 12, 2003
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3878
I found messages #302 and #233 in the archives which seems to be exactly my problem, but the solutions given didn't work. The ntbootdd.sys setup installed was...
Jerrad Pierce
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Aug 12, 2003
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3879
... I have very little experience with NT, having jumped from 98 to 2000, but my understanding is that NT cannot boot from a "system partition" above the...
nobody1261
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Aug 12, 2003
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3880
Message #233 concerns the 2GB boot boundary, and indicates that ATAPI.sys from SP4 or later should remove the limit. Well yeah reversin the order of the...
Jerrad Pierce
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Aug 12, 2003
3:32 pm
3881
... Now that Dan describes it this way, I recall that I had this problem before with Windows 95 and with OS/2. This happens when the boot manager boots an OS...
Rodríguez Vargas ...
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Aug 12, 2003
4:17 pm
3883
Hi, I have installed Windows 98 and SCO Open server 5.0.5 UNIX on single HDD(Drive). I have also installed XOSL on Windows partition. When I try to boot in...
Rahul Malohtra
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Aug 14, 2003
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3884
I had Win98, WinXP, and Suse Linux 8.2 running briefly. I was using the standalone Ranish as my boot manager to run everything until I had everything...
pguilarte
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Aug 15, 2003
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3888
I would like to dual-boot xp on two hard drives with a thrid party boot manager (XOSL). Drive 1: installed XP on the master drive on the second partition, the ...
wolv3r1n3
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Aug 17, 2003
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3890
Is it possible, using XOSL, to set up 4 Win2K Pro and 2 WinNT OSs? I'd like to install each on its own 10Gb partition of a 60Gb hard drive. I'd also like for...
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