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- PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING NOTES CAREFULLY, BEFORE INSTALLING XOSL
-
- Extended Operating System Loader comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, it
- is destributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- The full license can be found in the GPL.TXT file.
-
- 1. 'Easy upgrade' is not support. XOSL 1.1.5 will have to be completely
- reinstalled from scratch.
-
- 2. If you have any other version installed, it is recommened
- to uninstall it before installing XOSL 1.1.5 To perform a
- quick uninstall, execute 'fdisk /mbr'.
-
- 3. It is strongly recommended to install XOSL from a floppy.
- Particularily when you plan to install XOSL to a dedicated partition.
- This way you will always have a backup of the data overwritten
- (provided the floppy doesn't contain errors :)
-
- 4. With XOSL comes Ranish Partition Manager, written by Mikhail
- Ranish. Note that certain circumstances exist where it is not
- free to use. Refer to http://www.ranish.com/part for the details.
-
- 5. With XOSL comes Smart Boot Manager (SBM). It is destributed
- under the terms of the GNU GPL. XOSL use SBM to indirectly
- support booting from CD-ROM. The CD-ROM booting howto can be
- found in the manual/cdrom folder. The manual to SBM can be
- found in the manual/sbm folder. SBM can be found at
- http://btmgr.sourceforge.net. When an update of SBM is available,
- and you want to install it, you will have to replace SBMINST.EXE,
- as found in this distribution, with the new one, and completely
- reinstall XOSL.
-
- -- NOTES ON INSTALLATION ON DOS DRIVE --
-
- ...
-
- -- NOTES ON INSTALLATION ON DEDICATED PARTITION --
-
- 1. You have to create a partition for XOSL yourself, BEFORE you
- run install. The XOSL install utility does not create a partition
- for you.
-
- 2. Select the partition you want to install XOSL onto carefully.
- ALL DATA ON THE SELECTED PARTITION WILL BE DESTROYED! Although
- install provides an uninstall option, which can completely restore
- the partition data, you should NEVER rely on such features.
-
- 3. If you install from floppy (recommended), make sure that floppy
- has at least 712kb (729088 byte) of free disk space BEFORE you run
- install (and after you have copied the XOSL install files to the
- floppy). If you don't install Ranish Partition Manager, only 584kb
- (598016 byte) of free disk space is required.
-
-