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I've been doing some experimenting with XP's own inbuilt resizing utility - thought you folks might be interested: 1. It will only resize upwards. 2. One needs...
8 Mar 3, 2004
2:09 pm

Mike O'Connor
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For some time I have had XOSL in charge of booting a plethora of operating systems. At the time of the XOSL install I chose not to install Smart Boot Manager, ...
1 Mar 2, 2004
11:18 am

Dermot Moynihan
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All the reference help me a lot. Thanks...
2 Feb 28, 2004
1:09 pm

Dermot Moynihan
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Today I tried to reinstall Win98 in a primary partition on the 2'nd HD following a method (see below) which worked before but no longer. Windows setup refuses...
8 Feb 24, 2004
10:42 am

wootletootle
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hello!! anyone can help me, my computer has a problem when get started, start button on the taskbar clickable but not funtioning, what should i do? thank...
3 Feb 24, 2004
8:54 am

John McCabe
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Hi, did I loose the reference about the way to edit interrupt 13 on hard disc in order to copy Windows 9x o ME into a ext partition over 8 gigas and I can not...
2 Feb 23, 2004
9:59 am

Dermot Moynihan
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Hi guys, Have there been problems with people using XOSL on a Pentium 4? The problem that I'm facing is that every so often (on different Pentium 4 systems) I...
4 Feb 18, 2004
11:33 pm

Jojo BERAGO
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RTFM... "Smart Boot Manager" is what handles CD-Rom booting and appears in XOSL list of bootables as if its a partition....
2 Feb 17, 2004
11:22 pm

Orlando Dancourt
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HI: How I configure the xosl to boot from cd-rom ? he doesn't appear in the list of devices of the xosl. I have installed the option to start up from cd-rom ...
1 Feb 16, 2004
11:02 pm

Orlando Dancourt
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Hi guys Has anyone had any experience of making a ghost image of a partition containing Linux (ext3fs) and then "restoring&quot; that image in another partition so...
10 Feb 13, 2004
1:16 pm

Mike O'Connor
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Hi everyone. I'm not as responsive as I should and wish to be, but I have a lot to do lately. Geurt kindly send me original files and I setup a mirror for XOSL...
2 Feb 6, 2004
12:31 pm

John McCabe
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Hi XOSL users, I have a backup computer with Linux Mandrake and Suse. Also there are 2 Win 3.11 partitions on there for some old progs I occasionally use. We...
3 Feb 6, 2004
9:47 am

John McCabe
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PROBLEM: I can not get Win98SE to recognize the CD-ROM any longer. SET-UP: I have an XOSL system with the Master drive containing Win2K, then Win98SE on a...
6 Feb 3, 2004
9:14 am

Hans-Ludwig Mahlmann
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I'm trying to set up a multi-boot system, as simple as possible. Here's what I'd like to set up: Drive 1 (master): 1st bootable partition (32GB): Win2K 2nd...
16 Feb 1, 2004
9:57 am

Dermot Moynihan
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Hello, first off here is my layout... One Hard Disk, on first IDE slot... /--------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ...
2 Jan 30, 2004
3:26 am

James M. DeLuca
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Hello, folks - I am brand-spanking-new to xosl, and I am truly impressed with it. I work at a public library, and am planning on using it to facilitate the...
14 Jan 28, 2004
6:15 pm

Dave Howe
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Dear friends, if I reinstall XOSL on my computer, all previous setting include passwords are demaded. Is possible to force XOSL to ask the password before...
1 Jan 28, 2004
9:09 am

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Can XOSL be started from a boot CD? Also will XOSL allow my to boot Win 98 which is on a CD? Chris......
1 Jan 25, 2004
11:51 pm

cwilkinsuk
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Hello, I re-compile Xosl to have a silent dos logicical install ("unattend&quot;). It works well but now i would like to "force" the default boot options. My...
1 Jan 21, 2004
8:17 pm

rodolf1973
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I have a laptop which has an on-board touchpad. I also have a mouse that goes haywire when the touchpad is enabled. I would like to automate the process of...
1 Jan 18, 2004
12:38 pm

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From: "Art McClure" <artmcclure@...> Subject: Re: [xosl] Re: Stop Crap ... It is (or was) moderated, but for newly subscribing members only. I believe ...
5 Jan 10, 2004
4:05 pm

Craig Powell
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Some weeks ago a very strange thing has happened. I have a XOSL configuration with 3 bootable partitions, a FAT32 (where xosls is in) and 2 XP NTFS. I have set...
1 Dec 27, 2003
12:17 pm

mfsav2
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I just loaded this file to a floppy and before I use it I would like to know how it differs from the regular XOSL. I tryed to download the regular version off...
1 Dec 26, 2003
7:40 pm

wilko_54166
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Thanks for moderating this site. I was getting a lot of rather questionable spam. Now that has all stopped. -Art...
2 Dec 21, 2003
9:01 pm

RUSSELL MORRIS
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hi there, you might have noticed: due to recent spam floodings the XOSL group membership policy is set to "moderated&quot;, now. all membership applicants are sent...
4 Dec 19, 2003
6:12 pm

Philipp G.
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Petr Soucek's workaround only mentions that he got this to work with FAT32. He says he will report back with respect to NTFS, but I haven't found a posting for...
6 Dec 9, 2003
3:05 pm

Phillip Chee
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I have a perennial problem when dual-booting a system using xp and linux. Regardless of the partition configuration, I install XOSL to the XP FAT32 partition...
4 Dec 8, 2003
5:28 pm

Phillip Chee
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... That would be good. Given the valid traffic on the XOSL group recently, moderating shouldn't be too difficult! Best Regards John McCabe...
3 Dec 7, 2003
8:10 pm

Jeff Messenger
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Hello, I try to automate the installation of XOSL (under dos 7.0) I know there is not command line options (like "smart boot manager"). But is there a way to...
1 Dec 4, 2003
5:46 pm

rodolf1973
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Hi, I have been reading almost all the post in the partman and xosl group messages and some where I read that XOSL is only able to boot upto 4 primary...
15 Dec 3, 2003
6:38 pm

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