Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:53 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Loaders Message-ID: <oprhcm7r060cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <1039753855.50217.11.camel@p6m7g8.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net> References: <1039753855.50217.11.camel@p6m7g8.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:30:56 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci <philip@p6m7g8.com> wrote: > Anyone here hand any experience with this? > > http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Acronis+OS+Selector+8.0 > > Acronis OS Selector > > I wonder if you still need multiple disk drives. As far as I know the > physical geomoetry of hard drives is altered to give you 4 fdisk > sections if winblows is on it anywhere instead of 16. Linux takes 2. > > I would like to install all of the following if possible. > > Win95,Win98,Win2k Pro,Win2k Server,WinXP > Redhat 6.3, 7.3, 8.0 > FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x (eventually) > NetBSD-current > OpenBSD-current > Darwin-current > FreeDOS I haven't tried Acronis. I have tried and am currently using another shareware product that does the same thing, is less than 1mb, and whose 30- day free trial is *not* feature-limited, called BootItNG ( http://www.terabyteunlimited.com ). BING will let you put an unlimited number of "primary" partitions on a disk. The reason I'm using BootItNG rather than Grub, which is freeware and a FreeBSD port, is because I have two of my boot sectors (W2K and FBSD 4-STABLE) on a RAID-0 array, which Grub doesn't quite grok yet AFAIK. I have never used the freeware boot loader XOSL, but have heard some nice things about it - some teenager was on TechTV the other month showing off the 30-odd OSs on his machine that he boots with XOSL. If you do try Acronis and/or XOSL, particularly if you also try bootloaders I'm familiar with, such as Grub and BootItNG, I'd be interested to know what your experiences were. -- Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?oprhcm7r060cf2rk>