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spake unto us, saying:

Quote:>I am building a system that will boot between 4 OS' - Win 95, Win NT WS,
>Linux, and Solaris.  I would like to be able to hide system partitions
>from other systems.

By default, Solaris and Linux will not be able to see each other, and
the Windows flavors will not be able to see either one.  So your only
concern will be the visibility between NT and Win95.

If you install those two in primary partitions on the same drive, there
shouldn't be a problem with that either.

Quote:>After doing some research, the 4 partition software packages seem to
>be the most common and well developed ones.

>I am looking for opinions/feedback/input on the four packages:

>        Bootit
>        Boot Manager
>        Partition Magic
>        Partition Manager by Ranish

Bootit is a utility I know of but have not used.

The only "Boot Manager" I know about is the OS/2 Boot Manager (also the
same as the IBM Boot Manager included as part of Partition Magic 3.x),
and it's a nice basic boot menu, but I'm not sure it's available at all
as a separate product.  I've used it for years (since 1992 I think).

Partition Magic is a glorified (and relatively powerful) fdisk utility
which I've used for quite a while.  Very useful, IMhO.  Newer versions
have things I'm not familiar with (I'm still using the OS/2 version of
PM 2.03).

Ranish's Partition Manager looks like a REALLY slick utility, and it's
on my list to play with.  But I copped out and bought a copy of System
Commander here instead.  :-)

I think I would recommend that you add System Commander to your list
above, since it allows you to selectively change primary partition
visibility (in many cases) for each individual boot menu entry.

Really, though, you probably don't need it.  The only question I would
have is how to get NT's boot manager to get along with Solaris' boot
manager, and I suspect that can be done.

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        WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
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Hi there:

    I have not as much information as Richard S. has, but I can tell you that I
used BootIt for a while and it's really great. You can configure your partitions
EXACTLY like you want to appear on every os boot.

    by the way, you can try it with almost no restrictions.

please tell me how does it work to you.

regards,
MATIAS O.

Chris Peek escribi:

Quote:> I am building a system that will boot between 4 OS' - Win 95, Win NT WS,
> Linux, and Solaris.  I would like to be able to hide system partitions from
> other systems.  After doing some research, the 4 partition software packages
> seem to be the most common and well developed ones.

> I am looking for opinions/feedback/input on the four packages:

>         Bootit
>         Boot Manager
>         Partition Magic
>         Partition Manager by Ranish

> Can anyone recommend one or the other, or provide feedback as to why they
> have used one over another?

> Thanks, Chris Peek

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Matas Orchard V.

ICQ: 460589

why reboot? use Linux.
Red Hat 5.2 ~ kernel 2.0.36 ~ KDE 1.0

hiding not a problem, win stupid as shit can't see anything other than
win.
Linux can see just about anything but useless unless mounted and you can
disable Solaris filesytem support with custom kernel.
know nothing of Solaris, but should be just as easy.
the thing is that the partitions will physically exist on the disk and
there is no way to hide the fact that there are other partitions on the
disks, but if not mounted in Linux it is unusable in Linux. and I doubt
that Sun would be all that happy having multi-oss so I doubt SOlaris can
see Linux partitions.

System Commander Deluxe
best out there although it is commercial.