Does Win98 need to be on a primary partition? Yes and no. There are at least two issues involved in the answer to the question. One can actually specify...
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Geurt Vos
G.Vos@...
Jan 2, 2001 3:13 pm
... Assumed all installations are on primary partitions, hiding won't be necessary, because not the first but the active partition will be drive C. When you...
Hi everybody and thanks by advance, I want to install a simple thing (That is supose to be...) linux and win98 on one HD. I allready have win2k on my first HD...
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Allan Crooks
amc1@...
Jan 2, 2001 10:35 pm
... From your message, it is slightly unclear the problem is. First of all, no matter how you partition your disk, XOSL should still show the hard disk... if...
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station365@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:29 am
I have a 20 Gb harddisk with three partitions C/D/E . I have windows 98 installed on C:. Since I frequently install programs from Cds given by magazines, they...
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Christopher Grant
chriscgrant@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:39 pm
for starters, what is your partition configuration? those E and E partitions are all primary I assume? How large are they? Is anything on them, and if so,...
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David
teanau@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:11 pm
It seems to be a simple operation indeed...but maybe I have missed out something.. Anyway, I have Linux and Win98SE installed on a primary master HD. This is ...
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Tom Honermann
tom@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:18 pm
Actually, I went scouring the web to find out how to write a boot loader and found TONS of stuff on it. Many many examples and docs. Unfortunately, I lost...
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michaelsjr@...
Jan 4, 2001 2:09 am
I have XOSL on a separate hard drive. The hard drive consists of 3 partitions. I installed XOSL on the third partition of the hard drive. However, the third...
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Allan Crooks
amc1@...
Jan 4, 2001 3:10 am
... Well, from your message, you didn't say what the three partitions were (primary or logical), what file systems they were, or whether XOSL was installed in...
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km moondra
station365@...
Jan 4, 2001 3:55 am
I have a 20 Gb harddisk with three partitions C/D/E formatted using fdisk I have windows 98 installed on C:. I want to install another copy of windows 2000...
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km moondra
station365@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:33 am
I have a 20 Gb harddisk with three partitions C/D/E . I have windows 98 installed on C:. I want to install windows 2000 on partion e: Please suggest an...
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Allan Crooks
amc1@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:43 pm
... You didn't say how the disk were partitioned, but since you did it with fdisk, I'm assuming C is a primary partition, and D and E are both logical drives. ...
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michaelsjr@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:43 pm
... 3 ... were ... was ... try to ... of a ... drive ... however, ... (both ... for the ... is a ... visible ... certain ... logical ... would ... said at ... ...
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Allan Crooks
amc1@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:44 pm
... I believe that instead of "Install to Dedicated Partition", you choose something like "Install to FAT partition" or something like that.... You'd probably...
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vortex vortex
vortex806@...
Jan 4, 2001 8:59 pm
It finnaly works !!!!!! Thanks to all ! I disconnect my first HD (with Win2k) and install win98 and linux on the second (which was temporaly the first) and...
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David
teanau@...
Jan 5, 2001 11:19 am
I think there is an option to install XOSL into a DOS drive. In which case it is not a separate partition but XOSL is on a FAT file system. David...
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hallo01@...
Jan 7, 2001 8:19 pm
Hello! Sorry for my bad English. My problem is that after I boot Linux and shutdown this (with <Strg> <Alt> >Del>) the BIOS doesn't find any bootable partion....
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hallo01@...
Jan 7, 2001 8:23 pm
Hello! My problem is that XOSL starts the auto boot item without a password question but if I press ESC and start the same item manual than there is the...
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sarahm397@...
Jan 7, 2001 9:07 pm
Hello, I gather there's no plan to include USB mouse or 3-button mouse function in the current xosl. Are either of these going to be in the rewrite? Is the...
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csh
christopher.schnirch@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:43 am
Hi, ... seams that you have to rebuil the lilo configuation. LI means that lilo could start he first part, but could not find the rest (mostly due to to wrong ...
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csh
christopher.schnirch@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:52 am
Hi, ... boot or install? ... where is XOSL intalled.......? ( at 1) or 2) ) ... sure, but please provide more info about the disk layout (prim or ext part) and...
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Jorik Caljouw
jorik@...
Jan 8, 2001 8:41 pm
... (where ... then ... If linux is installed on /dev/hdax, (because it was the first(a) drive) in the lilo.conf there should be a root=/dev/hdax line. Once...
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Rob Ryan
rob@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:25 pm
Here's an interesting challenge that I've convinced myself I can solve with XOSL but I'm going to need some assistance from one (or more) super-users on the...
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Filip Komar
filip.komar@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:19 pm
hi below is a little longer explanation of installation of XOSL on PC which use EZ-Drive. It's a part of soon released additional documentation. EZ-Drive and...
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Filip Komar
filip.komar@...
Jan 8, 2001 11:19 pm
..is on its way to be soon released. I send it to David, who kindly voluntered to read it and check everything especially grammar and stuff. If I understand...
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Filip Komar
filip.komar@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:00 am
... U can. Just uncheck Activate on all your logical partitions Boot items. Especially linux! Your BIOS is somewhat to clever (or stupid) to boot non activated...
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Filip Komar
filip.komar@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:00 am
... U can't. Only Geurt can do that. Stupid workaround is to disable autobooting. HTH :-) filip....
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Filip Komar
filip.komar@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:00 am
... Uninstall XOSL to retrive the letter back. Then please do read messages, notes and the rest of the documentation for XOSL. HTH :-) filip....
