Hey
l'm just about to partition my HD with the view to putting
Win98 on it. l'd like to leave 2 partitions free with the
view to putting a version of DOS onto one and then Linux
onto the final. Does anyone have any suggestions please..
XOSL
I find it's best to create a dedicated partition for the boot manager,
as small as possible ( type in 4mb during Fdisk - it'll create the
smallest possible partition for your drive size ).
The installation of W98 tends to rewrite the master boot record ( i.e.
surely you would ONLY want W98 installed! ), and having the boot
manager on its own partition makes it a little less complicated to
reinstall it from a floppy .
XOSL allows you to hide partitions and boot an OS from an extended
partition. I find it advantageous to allow at least one partition
that's visible to all OS's...though I'm none too sure how that would
work with a Windows/Linux mix. I suspect it won't.
Version 1.15 contains Smartboot Manager' which allows booting from a
floppy or a CD-Rom even if disabled in the bios. However, I've found
it won't install on some machines - and you can make XOSL boot from
such devices with a bit of tinkering anyway.
I'd avoid installing the Ranish Partition Manager - it's overly
complicated.
I've never had any problems running XOSL - other than those of my own
making ( and it's always recovered from my mistakes ), and with its
various hiding and password features it makes for a reasonably secure
machine ( absolutely brilliant if you want to share your machine with
other users..i.e. kids ).
Regards,
