Re: Boot Manager

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From: Kevin Reichard
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00

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Matt Hyne <mhyne@rp.csiro.au> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Kevin Reichard wrote:

>> Dan Kyhl <danky@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Is OS/2 Bootmanager out of the question.
>> 
>> It seems like overkill to use OS/2 just for the Boot Manager. ;)

>We don't mean to install OS/2 - all you have to do is run OS/2's FDISK (by
>booting from the first two floppies and them install Boot Manager in the
>partition you have assigned to put it in (or create one).

>This should take you more than 15mins - tops !!!

First you must own OS/2. Then you must run through some contortions
with OS/2 fdisk and Linux FDISK to properly configure everything. 

For less than a third of the cost of OS/2, you can get a really great
boot manager called System Commander.

--Kevin

Kevin Reichard
Writer
St. Paul, Minnesota
reichard@mr.net
http://www.kreichard.com

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From: reichard@mr.net (Kevin Reichard)
Subject: Re: Boot Manager
Date: 1996/10/17
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