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Dual Boot - 2 win98 environs

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by rbresee

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As a tech in an academic environment, I have been asked to deploy twinned win98 os's on the lab machines. We use Ghost to deploy the images. Traditionally, we had used OS/2 boot manager to create 2 separate 'c' drives, but have found that os2 v2.1 bootmanager does not like drives larger that 4 mb. The os2 warpserver version of bootmanager with a patch will handle drives over 8.4gb, but then the Ghost process won't identify the correct boot partition unless imaged in a sector by sector mode. This process takes up to 3 hours to push a 10gb drive. Without using sector by sector, I can deploy the same image in about 20 minutes (dependant on network traffic)
We are a government run college and therefore have no budget for software (ie PQ Magic) as this will need to be deployed to hundreds of systems.

Any suggestions-- another bootmanager that is very clean simple, and impossible for users to screw up. -- a prep tip prior to ghosting to allow the image to pick up the os/2 boot partition? Any thing at all.

Ric

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by dmiles

Here are two Boot managers that may be of help both are shareware
1)MST Boot
2)My Boot Manager download from Soft Seek.com

by kgosnell

Go to the "Partician Magic" site and see if the product will handle your requirements as it will handle large drives , it also has a boot manager and can enable a hide the drive function , the boot manager is top quality as well as the drive splitter , and you can do it on the fly without leaving Windows , or losing data, it also will allow operation in Dos , again without losing data, it's a professional tool within the reach of the regular user. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

by rbresee

Unfortunatly buying PQ Magic is out of the question. We're dealing with hundreds of licenses.

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