Heimo and others, If you go to Rich Green's FSFD site, here <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm> or if you like to avoid the annoying popups from geocities, visit his mirror site here: <http://members.home.net/rlgreen2/softlib1.htm> and then navigate to the bootutil page (boot.htm) and the disk util page (disk.htm) you'll find listed both free boot managers and partition utilities. On the boot page, some of the boot mangers there are just listed with URL and one-line description (near top of page) as Rich haven't found the time to add descriptions yet. (and I don't think he will for all of them) But he have included full description for at least two boot managers, OSL2000 and SysMon, - as wells as for Ranish Partitioner - which also include a boot manager. I have personally tried OSL200, but it did not work for me. Seemed to have some problems reading all my logical partitions, but this could be related to my particular setup - or some error on my hand. SysMon I haven't tried (and not sure I will since I found a pretty good working setup with XOSL) but it looks very impressive (but also somewhat "complex"). In short: All the features you'd want and more packed into only 30Kb, assembly of course :) There is a new beta of Ranish partition manager available (ver 2.38). If you download it, you should take notice what M. Ranish emphasis in the readme: quote> "First of all, I suggest this BETA version only to the EXPERIENCED users." <unquote I have personally tried the beta, and it worked just fine for me. It has some new features, and requirements, over the prior version 2.37 (which Heimo was referring to). It requires DPMI. Among the new feature are the "Partition Wizard". Very nice. Makes partitioning a easy and smooth process. The boot managers in the beta (compact and advanced) seems to work fine as well, but with one shortcoming. I found no way to enter the config screen of the advanced boot manger. This works well with the prior version 2.37 though. Also, a minor glitch in the beta (it seems): It sets aside a 31K partition for the advance boot manager (same as with ver 2.37), but when you try to install it - it requests 500K and refuse to install in the said partition. But you can install it to another partition, or to existing FAT (if I remember correctly). Reason for this, I figure, is that the beta now offers two versions of the advanced boot manger. One text mode, one GUI. The GUI isn't implemented yet, but it seems this is the one that requires 500k. The text mode version requires still only 31k. See M. Ranish hompage for download link for the beta 2.38, as well as the prior final version 2.37 <http://www.intercom.com/~ranish/part/> (the partbeta.zip includs "cwsdpmi.exe" DPMI) Version 2.37 should also be found at Simtelnet in the msdos/diskutil directory, I believe as part.zip. All the best, Bjorn To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
