System Commander /* was LILO */

[Chuck Young]

Hmm...

Sounds reasonable.  I have an older version of SC, which does not "help"
as much as your version.  I wonder if there is a "disable" or "reveal all"
configuration option.  We all like user control.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:29:40 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman {75562} <gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com>
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: System Commander /* was LILO */
> 
> Chuck Young wrote:
> > 
> > System commander is, IMHO, a very powerful boot/partition manager and can
> > be a lifesaver if you REALLY need it.  As you may know, it rewrites the
> > partition ID tag of every partition based on the way you configure it in
> > order to hide/reveal partitions for each bootable O/S.  Really handy
> > sometimes!
> I think that SC is very powerful. I specifically did not deinstall it in the
> event I want to use it. I just disabled it. Quite a while ago, when I went
> to reinstall SuSE, system commander decided to resize my Winodws partition,
> and create a new partition for SuSE without first telling me what it was
> going to do. It definititely  is a good boot manager, and I would be still
> using it except that booting Linux with it makes booting a 2 step process. I
> have LILO set up with 8 boot selections:(3 kernels, single user, multi-user,
> GUI, Windows). 
> 
> I have not used the Partition Magic boot manager, but as a partition
> manager, I much prefer Partition Magic, because the user has a bit more
> control. 
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