Hi Alex, I'm no expert on xosl, but if you don't mind the blind leading the blind:- ... From: "Alex Kitaen" <akitaen@...> To: <xosl@yahoogroups.com> ...
Hi Alex (again!), ... From: "Alex Kitaen" <akitaen@...> To: <xosl@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: [xosl] smart boot...
I have a 40 Gig HDD. Dos 6.22 is installed on the first partition, 2G. The rest has Windows 2000, an image I imported. XOXL will not load the Dos partition,...
Because W2k can "mount" a partition, and that you can create partitions without a letter in W2k, you will NOT be able to hide the partition to W2k. The dos...
... The way I hide stuff while installing OSes is to first get a printout of my partitions via RPM. Then I actually delete the partitions I want to hide using...
l like to clean out my pc's history and cache but from what l can understand the swap file still HOLDS all your activity and cache anyway is that right or. so...
Question, I had a machine setup with XOSL having these partians: dos(xosl installed),winxp,win2000. They machine worked great till I tried duplicating the...
Can anyone tell me why imaging(ghosting) a drive with xosl installed does not work?? When the image is dropped back to another machine the machine will not...
... ghost the whole drive, including the mbr (there is a command line switch for this) and it works fine. worst case, a win98 rescue floppy and "fdisk /mbr"...
Thanks Dave, I will try that with ghost. I know I can get back to boot state but that really is not an option due to I am loading a campus and that is just too...
Hello Errr... My plan was to have a computer bootable to dos 6.22 and/or win 95 (I have my reasons!) using XOSL as a boot manager. I had trouble installing the...
Dermot Moynihan> The way I hide stuff while installing OSes is to first get a printout of my partitions via RPM. Then I actually delete the partitions I want...
"zezzz2002"> asks: l like to clean out my pc's history and cache but ...the swap file still HOLDS all your activity and cache anyway... so even with a good...
trhats wrote back: The ghost switch did not work. What I also get(on a certain system) that was working, then I ghosted it and dropped to another machine. That...
I'm having difficulties using the Novell Zen imaging tool with XOSL. I built up a laptop that used XOSL to boot between an NTFS WinXP partition, and the...
That is exactly what happens to me when using GHOST. I also ran into another where the win2000 OS was disabled by xosl and the only way to get it re-enabled is...
The other thing you may want to try is the -ib switch when making your image. You will need it on the load portion, too. Basically, -ib copies the entire boot...
Thanks Phil, I will try the other switch. So are you meaning that if the harddrives are not the same then I will definately have to reinstall/fix the menu even...
Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. You could create platform specific ghost images, but unless you have the storage space that may not be suitable,...
Don't forget that if the Ghosted image came from a different brand or model of computer, the installed drivers for the hardware won't match and may prevent a...
At 18:01 11/11/2003, Phil wrote: <snip> ... <snip> Phil I hope I'm not off the track here but I haven't experienced this and I now do my installs on a Fujitsu...
At 17:37 10/11/2003, trhats wrote: <snip> ... If nothing else has worked you could try this: Assuming I remember correctly - it's a while since I had this...
Dermot, Not at all. I remember on certain drives we have that it works flawlessly. But, recently, the Western Digital WD60BB drives have been a pain at times...
I will try that. This is strange because the machines I am testing this on are exactly the same so there should not be a hardware issue. I also have ghosted...
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