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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: OS Boot Select 1.32 - yet another boot menu program
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.165820.2328@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:58:20 GMT
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- In article <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> wolfaajj@w250zrzzrz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
- >
- >OS Boot Select is a replacement of the ordinary master boot
- >program. It provides a customizable boot menu and customizable
- >timeout and the abiltity to automatically set the active partition
- >before booting. This avoids boot problems with some UNIX
- >systems (ISC). Unlike the OS/2 2.0 boot manager it only requires
- >the 512 byte of the master boot sector (sector 0) and no
- >seperate partition. The program knows a lot of partition ID's
- >(also 386BSD and BSDI BSD/386) but there is no restriction for
- >the boot menu since you could give the boot menu lines your
- >own names.
- >OS Boot Select comes with a installation program running
- >under DOS with a simple desktop for easy installation. It also
- >creates a backup of the old master boot sector.
- >
- Sounds great, but how about something that we non DOS people can use?
- could you post a UUENCODED version? What is LHA?
- It looks like uuencode, but uudecode won't touch it.
-
- >
- >-- Thomas
- >
- >
- >This is a self-extracting LHA archiv for DOS.
- >------------------------CUT HERE-----------------------------
- >begin 640 os-bs132.exe
- >M35J9 00 " 0___P_P ! ?#_' #K>2 3$A!)W,@4T98
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