From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 7:12:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F78137B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652DE43EDA for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC40127F; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:08 -0500 X-Epoch: 1039792328 X-Sasl-enc: h9TLxTFHbc5ftcu78RtLHg Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.204.177.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.204.177]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E59E8644; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:53 -0500 To: "Philip M. Gollucci" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Loaders References: <1039753855.50217.11.camel@p6m7g8.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net> Message-ID: From: Jud In-Reply-To: <1039753855.50217.11.camel@p6m7g8.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net> User-Agent: Opera7.0/Win32 M2 BETA1 build 2558 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:30:56 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci 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