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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,de.comp.os.os2.setup Subject: Re: Boot managers for W95/DOS/Win311 and OS/2 and FreeBSD/Linux Date: 15 May 1996 16:14:06 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4ncsbu$17u@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4jv7ia$t5o@fu-berlin.de> <Dq4tCM.1Iu@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de> <31923086.445C@iscg.com> <4nb164$3ml@ns.oar.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95:10416 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:14310 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19463 Scott Ratliff (scottr@carsinfo.com) wrote: : Axel Thimm (axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de) wrote: : : Hello, : : I'd like to know more about how to manage multiple OSes on my PC. Are : : there any FAQs for partitions/MBRs and booting sequences and for the : : available boot managers? I'd like to configure my system as general as : : possible and would like to prevent some mistakes beforehand. : : Thank you in advance, : : Axel Thimm. : Quite frankly every boot manager is lacking in one respect or another but : I have found the best all-purpose one is System Commander. But it costs : about $50-60. As for the free ones, I've kinda liked osbs the best except : of the fact it won't allow the booting off of a secondary drive. I believe : OS/2's allows you to do this but it doesn't hang too well with all of : the unix system's I've installed, especially UnixWare. OSBS20B8.EXE boots off a second disk. OS/2 boot manager boots FreeBSD. I would advise using OS/2's boot manager unless you're doing things from scratch. If you install OS/2 with a boot manager, it doesn't seem to work when booted from anything else. If you install it without, osbs can boot it. I have OS/2 & Win95 booting from OS/2's manager at the moment. I've had FreeBSD and DOS booting from it. You probably don't want to boot both DOS & Win95 - just press F8 after selecting Win95 and boot dos that way. You get to share your C: drive with Win95. You can probably even boot OS/2, Win95 and DOS from the same partition ! The only problem there is you miss the 'what do you want to boot' option. : Scott Ratliff : Systems Engineer : CARS Information Systems Corp. : scottr@carsinfo.com -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....