Lo, on Sunday, April 15, Jeff H did write: > Hi. I am new and moving very slowly in ditching windows. I have recently > been doing some major hardware upgrades and have yet to install debian. I > have a question. Has anyone been using XOSL? I ran across this site and > thought it might be interesting as I still have a strong interest in DOS and > some interest in maintaining my win98 stuff. What do you think? -Jeff H > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/home.html
I've only just skimmed the XOSL docs, but it looks like it's a lot more complicated than you really need. The installation process, in particular, may be a tad intimidating to someone who's just coming off a Windows background. LILO, the traditional Linux bootloader, can handle booting DOS and Windows* partitions quite nicely; I've been dual-booting for, oh, about 5 years now. As far as I can tell, the only XOSL feature that LILO doesn't support is the ability to hide windows partitions and thus allow multiple installs of Windows on the same machine. In short: looks cool, but probably not worth the hassle IMO. Richard
