... 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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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) -...
... 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...
... again ... item ... ************************** Thanks Dan ! Will do tonight. Am in office and neck deep in work. Will be travelling tomorrow but will...
... XP ... something ... ******************************* Dan! I tried to put the XOSL in P(0)- Win 98 partition instead of a separate partition for itself. It...
... 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...
... 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...
... you ... boot ... (0) ... *************** Dan, I tried again to have XOSL in separate partition and boot from there. Guess what - it worked! Thanks a lot...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...