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Re: Re[2]: Run more than one OS on your PC!
At 12:13 06/05/97 +0300, you wrote:
>Asaf Naaman <asaf@ibm.net.il> wrote:
>> DO NOT use this shit it crashed all my hard disks !!!!
>> Asaf
>
>That's right opposite to my experience with this product. I have it
installed on
>a dozen of boxes with no problems. May be, you own a (badly) cracked
version? If
>not, what did their support say?
>
I have legal vr. but I didn't called them. I prefer OS/2 Boot Manager.
>> At 08:41 07/05/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> >Have some one heard about "System Commander", or used it with Linux and
>> Microsoft shit?
>> >Can you send me some information about it?
>> >I found that LILO is very uncomfortable with large disks on a single PC, so
>> I am looking for alternatives.
>
>You may want as well to check some free alternatives. There is "bootmenu"
>(appeared recently in c.o.l.announce); at home I use chos - the latter
allows to
>choose the kernel image (for linux), not just the partition, as opposite to
>syscom and bootmenu. Bootmenu proved to work being installed on an Ontrack'ed
>disk. Others probably do as well, but I personally haven't tested.
>
>The real advantage of using syscom over the others I've mentioned is that
it can
>work with Win95 & DOS sharing same partition. In contrary to bootmenu, it also
>saves its configuration on a partition, not just in MBR, so in case of boot
>virus or disk crash you don't have to configure it from scratch, given you do
>backups regularly, of course.
>
>Regards,
>
>Evgeny
>
>
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