RE: Recovery CD (Was: DVD - uggghhh!)

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat Jan 02 1999 - 15:54:26 EST


On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:46:13 -0600, Ron Heiby wrote:

>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>At 09:55 AM 12/31/98 -0800, Michael Geary wrote:
>>System Commander
>
>After reading Michael's entire message, I was unable to determine what System
>Commander does that the BootMagic program from PowerQuest does. BootMagic

BootMagic? Or do you mean BootManager, which comes with Partition Magic (at least from 3.0)?
Boot Manager comes with OS/2, and is great at having multiple OSes on 1 computer, but
it has limitations based on which OSes can boot from which types of drives (primary or
logical partitions), and there is a partition limit.

>comes along "free" with Partition Magic 4.0, and I am using it successfully to
>boot Win95 or WinNT or a very minimal MS-DOS on my TP770ED.
>
>BTW, I wouldn't recommend to anybody to try to set up such a system without
>Partition Magic. I made *extensive* use of it in getting things to work
>properly.

Why? If you're starting out from scratch, FDISK works very well. I just wish MS would improve
their versions of FDISK... =(

 (It seems that the NT 4.0 SP1 I installed from the MSDN discs has to
>have its boot partition below 2Gig. But, once SP4 was installed on top of
>that, it no longer seems to care that the boot partition has been enlarged by
>about 400 Meg beyond that line.)
>
Or you could have enough room for NT, and put applications on another logical drive.

-- 
Paul Khoury |  <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my K5-200
http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html
Running OS/2 3/4, Win NT 4.0,  Mac OS 7.5.3, Sun Solaris 2.3, Linux 2.0.29,  Newton OS 2.0
ICQ#22543041   AIM - pkhoury12


New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:54:37 EST