Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-28 Thread Ralf Batri
Please ignore, testing stuff .

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:29:09 -0500 (EST) Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this post. Just downloaded it last night. Scarcely 70 kb. Excellent ! USM Bish On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: -|hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager... [...]. I was typing too fast so I didn't notice that the sentence was missing a word. Oops! ;) Coronya On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Coronya wrote: System Commander is not a boot manager but if you're considering using it then beware! I lost a ext2

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
When I first tried my current PIII 800 with a WD 30Gb and a Seagate 20Gb, both ATA66, I got troubles that yield me to repartition my secondary master (Seagate), using SC. I then switched to PQ, which worked fine until now. Coronya wrote: Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager...

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Ernest Johanson
Not sure how you would set things up with the install you have. What I have done in the past is to install DOS, then install Windows (95) on the same partition. During the install you will be asked where you want to install Windows. Choose another directory so that you don't clobber DOS. The

tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Saqib Shaikh
hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so far is: 1. installed dos 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine since it doesn't find dos. 3. installed linux. 4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine. 5. if i now change xenix

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so far is: 1. installed dos 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine since it doesn't find dos. 3. installed linux. 4. now, i can boot either

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Saqib Shaikh
where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib Please visit my home page at: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik - Original Message - From: Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: tripple booting dos/win

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: -|hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Visit: http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Multiple bootloader is FREE and works from floppy or your HD. I used the floppy to boot until I made sure everything worked

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:05:27PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . This is just a suggestion but there is a free boot loader called -

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Ralf Batri
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:09:42PM -, Saqib Shaikh wrote: hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Just take grub, it's in debian stable/testing It's GREAT booting WinXX, BSD and Linux without any probs ! Ralf

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Saqib Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so far is: I believe it can be done with lilo, but I'm not familiar with lilo. I do exactly what you want with GRUB. Following is part of my GRUB menu.lst file: # Boot

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-25 Thread Coronya
System Commander is not a boot manager but if you're considering using it then beware! I lost a ext2 partition because of this program. I wasn't able to know what exactly happened but even superblocks seemed to be damaged. This was the last partition of my harddisk. So if you go on with your idea