Is it possible to get a Notebook to boot from a PC-Card CD-Rom using Xosl (and SBM)? My Laptop doesn't have a built in CD-Rom and the Bios doesn't support CD...
Hello, I have been looking all over the net to see if anyone has done this, and i cannot believe i am the first one. Apparently, i used UBCD (ultimate boot cd)...
... using ... support ... but ... guess). ... I do not think it is possible. XOSL does not have buit-in CD-booting. So if SBM does not recognize your CD drive,...
... partition ... the ... installs? ... You have to be careful. When you see "Warning! doing this will erase all data on sda1 !", then that program is probably...
Thanks for the suggestion Antoine, Funnily enough, I want the CD-Booting to get a Linux Distr on my Machine! and it was this requirement that actually lead me...
Well, I have finally lowered my defences and got on the wagon as too the use of Linux. In the last weeks, I have fooled around a bit with the new Ubuntu 7.10,...
... for ... working ... to ... sure ... are ... When restoring partition from an image, you may need to reset its drive allocations in the registry and/or boot...
... too ... with ... have ... would ... as ... 56 ... the ... the ... still ... Let me clarify one thing : The 4 primary partitions per drive is not from XOSL,...
... as ... I ... mounted ... partitions ... systems ... A ... performance? ... to ... not ... the ... with ... of ... if ... common. ... install ... second ......
Everyone would save themselves a lot of grief if they just got a copy of VMWare Workstation. I know it costs $180, but I burned off well over that in my time...
... copy of ... over ... good ... starting to ... go ... those ... Yes, you are right, Virtualization is now accessible to everybody and has less bottompits...
... Is it in the same partition (number) now as it was when imaged? The partition for ntldr to boot is "hard-coded" in boot.ini, as Antoine said. To complicate...
Very good points. Also, good idea about the xosl on vm. Will give it a try when things die down here (I was away on travel). I thought all VM Ware products...
... it a ... all VM ... server ... VMWare Server and VirtualPC are completly free, no trial. They used not to be free but that changed about a year ago : ...
Hi I'm tyring to setup Vista and XP dual boot but am having problems. I'm now on the second method - have installed Vista on another HD and then copied the...
... Vista's bootloader does not know you moved your partitions and it is probably trying to load Vista from your first partition. You need to edit the BCD in...
Hi, all, Sorry for my poor English, I'm a Chinese student from Shanghai, China. Nice to see you. Now I'm begining learn linux and choose XOSL for my boot...
... references, ... doesn't ... swap- ... set ... Hi Jian Zhou, You can find references on multi-booting guides in previous posts of this mailing list or using...
About a month ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook which comes with MS Vista pre-installed. I'm not happy with Vista, but as consumers we simply don't...
Hi - I am a new person to this list, although I have been using XOSL for a number of years now. I have to roll out a bunch of laptops in the near future. I...
... a ... like ... up ... the ... ideal ... Hi Mark, You can use Ghost to clone the XOSL partition (or the whole disk, which might be simpler in your case)....
Hi, I just got a Thinkpad A20m. It had a bare min. copy of XP on it. I want to use this as a strictly Win 98 system. I have 2 other computers..my big PC XP...
... want ... computers..my ... 98 ... Followed ... got ... discovered ... is ... suggested ... the ... case ... gigs as ... Hi Carolyn, XOSL is a boot selector...
I feel for you, having just had to recreate an installation .. To add a detail to what Antoine says, the programs he suggests make it possible to "image" a...
... Hi Junja, I'm not sure I understand what you said. The programs I mentionned don't just "image" partitions (I don't know what you meant by that). They can...
I think we're in agreement. I just wanted to suggest an alternative which keeps things as simple as possible. I raised the question of imaging simply to ...
Hi, I tried uninstalling XOSL from my Dell desktop and ran into a couple of typical noobie problems: 1. Probably uninstalled it incorrectly, as the result was...
... couple ... the ... copy ... No ... is ... I ... Hi David, The fixmbr command in the Win2k recovery console probably did its job correctly. But the MBR...
so its been a couple of years... and i finally figured it out. nick marino assumed that i was loading on a intel macintosh, not a standard pc, as i was. XosL...
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