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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. > -- > Jerry Feldman (HP On-Site Consultant) http://gbrweb.msd.ray.com/~gzf/ > +-------------------------------------------------------+-----Note: ------+ > | Raytheon Electronic Systems (W) (781)999-1837/1-1837 | My views may not| > | Mail Stop: S3SG10 (F) (781)999-4030/1-4030 | reflect the | > | 180 Hartwell Road (W) gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com | views of my | > | Bedford, MA 01730-2498 (FWD:H+W) gaf at blu.org | employer. | > +-------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+ > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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