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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:06:46 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: System files, MBRs, boot managers

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> I'd like to get a copy of those too, unless they
> are readily available on Hobbes or Norloff.

Steve sent them to this list at 8 a.m. this (Friday) morning. See his
message for the attachment.

> . . . *without* trampling all over the LVM partition signatures.

Did you ask V Communications if SC is LVM compatible? I'd check first .
. .

> You are overlooking the BOOT-IT family of products,

I searched for BOOT-IT in Google and got plenty of weird hits but not
any boot managers. Do you have more info on this so I can find it?

> one called K-BOOT (shareware, possibly no longer around),

Google couldn't find K-BOOT either. Do you have more info like the
manufacturer or a url?

> and a current competitor of SC called OS Selector
> (from Acronis), recently mentioned by Ray.

Hah! Easily found, didn't even need Google, just typed in Acronis.com.
Here's the product page:

http://www.acronis.com/products/osselector/

and thanks for making me aware of it. Notably they say they support
OS/2 (though no mention of LVM). $45 at their online store.

> There may well be others. I would *not* make the
> assumption that all of these support OS/2, ECS, or HPFS
> partitions. LVM support is going to be scarcer still.

I should add some columns to my list:

-- Does the software have its own internal disk access routines, or
instead does it rely solely on the motherboard BIOS for disk access?

-- If it has its own internal disk access routines:

-- What size drives are supported?

-- What partitioning schemes are supported? (LVM?)

-- What file systems are supported (for the partition being
booted)? (JFS?)

and of course

-- How much does it cost?

Thanks, Jordan. Let me know if you have links for BOOT-IT and K-BOOT.

- Peter

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