An even better boot manager is System Commander. Boots anything, anywhere, anytime. Even does HD partitioning. -ted Robert C. Russell wrote:
Another alternative is the OS/2 Boot Mamager, which I'm using: OS/2 3.0, SuSE 5.3, Debian 2.0, Red Hat 5.1.
LILO in the respective logical partition( for /).
Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com
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On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:52:23 -0500 "Arun K. Khan" <arunkhan@xnet.com> writes:
Pls. see my response below.
At 07:33 AM 09/08/98 -0400, Ted Maciag wrote:
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Well Arun,
From your questions you haven't had muchd experience doing OS's. Yes you can boot 30 or 40 or more OS from a single PC. To do this use Systems Commander, you _must_ RTM. There are specific instructions to follow.
Novell is a DOS based program. You can boot it from a floppy if you have to. So end of story. Get SC and get going. Later I'm short for time. BTW, might want to take a try at Borders for some info.
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Ted,
You quoted the wrong poster's name in your response. My post was in response to someone else's query. I assumed that he/she would be using LILO in the MBR and was trying to give a LILO solution that would work for Linux, NT, and Novell. I have installed and used Linux (Slackware, Redhat, Caldera, SuSE), Win[39]x/NT, Solaris x86. I have not used/installed Novell though and thus am not sure about it's installation requirements.
Assuming Novell is installed in some partition say /dev/hda2, NT in say /dev/hda1 and Linux say in /dev/hda6 (/dev/hda3 is extended and /dev/hda5 is Linux Swap), I think one can have a multi boot system using LILO in the MBR. I don't think it is necessary to buy System Commander to multi boot the OSs in discussion here. BTW, I do have a SC version that I bought back in '96. I think it is a nice product when you are dealing with many OSs (one of them being Win 9x which gives you a FAT16/32 partition for SC installation automatically) installed on many HDs **but** for handful of OSs in a couple of HDs, IMHO LILO in MBR is sufficient. Another alternative, is to use NT boot manager to boot the various OSs in this system by editing the boot.ini file.
HTH -- Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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