hi i know it is possible to have 4 installs of xp on one hdd, cos i did it a few months ago, and which O/S loaded depended on which partition was set active,...
Well you need to set each partition active before you install an OS to it. Of course XP's installer allows you to indstall to another drive other than c: BUT...
... From: Jamie Dale To: xosl@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [xosl] Digest Number 1286 Well you need to set each partition...
You also need to hide each partition, install XP on the remaining visible one, which will be c: for all of them, and then re-install XOSL to add it to the boot...
Yeah sorry I should of mentioned that the other partitions must be hidden while you make your target partition active. Also, No version of Windows will boot...
On 12/04/06 at 00:36, Doc Chiron wrote about the subject of "Digest Number 1288" > Netiquette request: > Please trim the excess garbage (advertising and...
no, i know all about partitons and partitioning, let me clarify: how do i make my pc boot from the active partition (obviously using my bootable cd of...
I've used xosl for some time now but during a recent installation looked with more interest at RPM and SBM, neither of which to date I have installed. Now I...
Yes, SBM (Smart Boot Manager) does basically the same thing as XOSL but XOSL does much that SBM does not do and there is at least one thing that SBM does do...
IIRC the reason for including SBM (for those that may not know, Smart Boot Manager - http://btmgr.webframe.org/) was that this piece of software included the...
I installed ubuntu (Debian Linux) recently with GRUB to boot, I then installed xosl and just booted Linux by booting to the original MRB. Unfortunately I was...
... Right, thanks for the info, I only loaded it as a form of practice as I didn't want to mess up my daughter's laptop, not a facility that I feel a need to...
You need to reinstall GRUB. So either you reinstall GRUB into the MBR and lose XOSL or either you install GRUB in some partition. You might want to cuse of...
Geoff Check out http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/20/backing-up-the-mbr/ http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Restore_Grub By the way, when working as root in...
... That's the option I will go for. ... Didn't know a copy would still exist, thought it would have been zapped when I reinstalled xosl. Is that the actual...
... Thanks for quick reply Dermot. I actually downloaded the grub CD from http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/tiki-index.php This managed to boot my ubuntu, had...
I have used xosl for some time but only with a Windows FAT32 system and minor tweaking of partitions. I have recently installed it on my daughter's laptop...
... I am not a linux guru by any means, but I do use Mandrake and have been trying other distros. I didn't know ubuntu was Debian Linux. Why don't you just...
Hi Guys, I apologize in advance for the necessary cross-postings. Following my surgery on 2005-12-21 I'm finally at a stage where I can sit to read and type...
Geoff I have never used Resize so just speaking about XOSL - your hiding will probably get messed up and need redoing. You may find OSes appearing in Explorer...
... Ah, right, I never gave that one a thought, I've not had a look at my install CD since installation and was thinking 'I don't really want to do a...
... Yes, I've used that in the past but my version wont deal with NTFS. ... Lost me a wee bit there, the machine that I enquired about is my daughter's laptop...
... Windows will allow the swap file to be put on any partition that it can see (in fact, I've heard the best place to put your swap file is on another hard...
I haven't had this problem with XOSL before I tried to install XOSL on this old Compaq PC. The install program sees the keyboard OK. So I get XOSL installed...
... Doc Chiron here: Lots of help is available. Start by using the search box on any XOSL group page for: KEYBOARD There is a lot of helpful stuff there. This...
I have been installing (& uninstalling) XOSL on a W98 computer, I resized the primary partition, and created a partition with the remaining space. The second...
... I found another boot manager that would work, GAG - available at http://gag.sourceforge.net/ - though I would still like to know why XOSL wouldn't load....
... Hi Pancho, Greetings from Australia! 3:21 in the AM Friday 05 May 2006. Simplest way is to create a logical partition of minimum size create-able - i.e a...
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