Thank you for the informative response. ... Hmmm. Not so sure sure there are such things with computers. You are either right and it works, or you're wrong and...
Hi folks - I've successfully used Ranish before to partition a 40gB drive into 6 partitions, for multi-booting via XOSL. But I'm now trying to create 8...
What it is ain't exactly clear - B. Springfield, 1966 I. REFERENCE In http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#12 Goodell states: "DOS 6.x uses CHS, not...
A few thoughts, I use DOS for my mission critical tasks, as I do not trust windows, and I have not found a package that I can use to write foxpro type...
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Hi, I don't know if the PTEDIT hack will work for DOS 6.22 above 2GB; my experience only applies to DOS 7.x (which is Win 9x) and DOS 7.x is definitely able to...
... Doc: For What It's Worth "It starts when you're always afraid. Get out of line; the man come and take you away...you better STOP..." ... states: "DOS 6.x...
All- After installing XOSL on it own primary partition and installing freebsd 5.3 release on its own primary partition I am having strange keyboard lock out...
Hi. I work for a small software company who has decided that they want to have a pre OSR2 version of win95 installed. They have given me a budget of $0. The...
Can you give us a better description of your partition table? You mention you have 5 partitions. That would mean one of them has to be an extended one and the...
... There is one primary partition - it is 2GB. The rest of the Hard drive is the extended partition which is then broken up into 3 2GB partitions and 1 11GB...
First off, welcome to the microsoft world of partitions not playing nice with each other. My advice would be to make one primary partition say with win95. Then...
... What a cold harsh world it is.... ... This is where I get a bit confused. How/where do I install Ranish? ... In theory it makes sense - I'm just a little...
... I work for a small software company who has decided that they want to have a pre OSR2 version of win95 installed. They have given me a budget of $0. The...
... If you have a XOSL install disk ready, Ranish is bundled with it. You can install XOSL on its own small primary partition and when you get in the boot...
Thanks you for your help. I did manage to use Rankish and XOSL to get a win95/98 dual boot. But then I ran into problems with drivers. The Dell I was using...
Since it's actually "Ranish" (Ranish Partition Manager, sometimes also called RPM) that would explain why you've had strange results. As best I can tell the...
Yes! There was something confusing in my head and that explains it. I was pretty sure RPM was accessed via a hot key but I knew there was something that could...
All of a sudden I can't perform a simple installation. The whole story is reasonably complicated, but the upshot is: I'm doing this: Booting from a w98 boot...
Hi. Object: To create a dual boot between pre and post OSR2 Win95. Computer: Etower 566 - 256MB Ram - 2 hard drive (14 GB and 4GB respectively) - CD ROM -...
... Hi there. I'm not sure but I think I know what is going on. When installing to a dos drive, it's installing on the first partition but you can't boot on it...
I've setup a second copy of XP on a slave HDD. (Master HDD0 contains working XP1 which I need to leave working.) I loaded XP2 with this HDD1 set as only drive...
... Hi John, Wouldn't it be just as simple to add the XP2 entries into the boot.ini for the first, remove or rename the boot.ini in the XP2 installation and ...
... BTW John, Why do you have XOSL in a logical FAT partition instead of an XOSL native (type 0x78) one-cylinder [least possible] logical partition. XOSL can...
Second attempt! should have come back 2:19:xx ago {originally sent at 11:30 UTC 21-12-2004} ... Hi John, Wouldn't it be just as simple to add the XP2 entries...
Hello Roger and other members of the group, I am also interested in using part2.43 or 2.44 with xosl in view of their ability to creat more primary partitions....
While you are at it - drop me a batch of files as well. Thanks in advance Michael NB. Merry X-mas and a happy new year. ... of ... using ... posted ... is ... ...