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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Feb 1, 2008 6:21 pm
... 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)....
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Carolyn
ivorybow
Feb 14, 2008 3:54 pm
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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Feb 14, 2008 4:39 pm
... want ... computers..my ... 98 ... Followed ... got ... discovered ... is ... suggested ... the ... case ... gigs as ... Hi Carolyn, XOSL is a boot selector...
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junja
john_negus
Feb 18, 2008 1:38 pm
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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Feb 18, 2008 1:51 pm
... 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...
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junja
john_negus
Feb 20, 2008 2:07 pm
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 ...
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dknapp11
Feb 21, 2008 10:46 pm
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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Feb 21, 2008 10:54 pm
... couple ... the ... copy ... No ... is ... I ... Hi David, The fixmbr command in the Win2k recovery console probably did its job correctly. But the MBR...
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sacredheart10
Feb 27, 2008 1:56 pm
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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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Feb 27, 2008 2:02 pm
... filesystem, ... i ... Great. But you know you can install XOSL over your setup and use the Original MBR option to start GRUB. Or you could install grub in...
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sacredheart10
Mar 6, 2008 5:56 pm
the reflective boot method using grub would have been a good idea, it would have been cool to try. at the time my goal was to simply get the thing to work....
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matthewdearden
May 27, 2008 3:42 am
Hi I've used XOSL a lot over the years, and love it. But have now had two failed install experiences; one I now understand, but the other I'm stuck on, and...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
May 27, 2008 3:48 am
... 100Gb ... disk ... disk ... Hi Matthew, This looks like the Windows boot loader not finding its files where it looks for them. If you changed the order of...
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matthewdearden
May 27, 2008 3:33 pm
Antoine, all, Thank you for such a helpful reply. Partition sequence was 1) Create OS parition 100Gb, data partition 300Gb, I also created a final partition...
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Norman
e_net_rider
May 27, 2008 3:33 pm
Newbie. It is likely most of you know the issue of internal SATA and WME. I learned the hard way that WME does not support SATA drives. I recently added XP in...
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David Dvalis
macdavids
May 28, 2008 3:08 pm
... other ... 100Gb ... disk ... both ... installation. ... disk ... Hi, Try to boot your pc with Win XP CD and choose Repair and if it fixes your problem but...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
May 28, 2008 3:22 pm
... If WME works when you only have your main HD and hangs when you add your SATA drive then it looks like it is a driver issue. This means that it does not...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
May 28, 2008 3:34 pm
... What David recommends is a good idea. ... When installing to a dedicated partition, XOSL reformats the partition using another file system. So a 30MB...
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Robyn
robyn_peel
May 29, 2008 3:33 pm
Hi Antoine, ... I would agree with this. 32Mb is my normal choice, but 30Mb will achieve the same result. XOSL requires less than 5Mb of hard drive space, so...
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Norman
e_net_rider
May 30, 2008 4:19 pm
Unfortunately there is very little relating SATA and WME. I found that out when I originally was trying to add the SATA drive and finally came to the...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
May 30, 2008 4:30 pm
... They can hide the partitions but not the drive, only the BIOS can do that. But even if you hide the drive in the BIOS, many OS can detect the drive anyway....
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marckevinjordan
Jun 17, 2008 9:35 pm
Howdy, I just discoverd XOSL and think it's great! I'm going thru the xosl docs/forum and learning how to use it and I have some questions. Basically, I'm...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
Jun 17, 2008 10:02 pm
... XP and Vista can see hidden partitions so don't bother trying to hide them in XOSL. Instead, use the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) to remove the drive...
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marckevinjordan
Jun 18, 2008 7:09 pm
Thanks for the quick reply. Some follow-ups... ... So, after each OS is installed, boot to each one using XOSL boot manager, run diskmgmt.msc & remove the...
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David Dvalis
macdavids
Jun 18, 2008 7:10 pm
Hi, I'm also user of xosl and have three os's per hard disk. it seems to be possible to boot the microsoft os's from an logical partition but I could not got...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
Jun 18, 2008 7:59 pm
... Right. Although I don't think its saved in a database, more likely in the registry. diskmgmt.msc is very simple to use (just don't press delete partition,...
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Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
Jun 18, 2008 8:28 pm
... I was just looking around and I saw that http://multibooters.co.uk/ have a good information about this problem and explain how to copy Vista to a logical...
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marckevinjordan
Jun 23, 2008 2:35 am
All the DOS tools (part, partinfo, driveinfo, etc.) running from a dos boot disk & gparted (linux boot disk) both see my raid array as two separate disks. I'm...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Jun 23, 2008 2:45 am
... dos ... work? ... all ... Normally, with hardware RAID, you setup your disk array in the BIOS of the disk controller or booting to the Floppy or CD that...
