Re: A better Lilo?

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> My apologies to the truly bilingual - here's my attempt to translate the
> home page and the download page.  The links are the French words in square
> brackets.
> 

Thank you for translating this.  Specially because for obvious reasons
they are many native french speakers in this list.


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> 
> Are you looking for an easy way to move from one OS to another?  You've
> found it!  MBoot is the software that you need!
> 
> What is it?
> 
> MBoot is a universal (boot loader?).  On starting your PC, it analyses all
> your hard drives to find the ones that contain an OS.  You are presented
> with a list (see screen shots [captures d'ecrans]) from which you can
> quickly select the OS to use.
> 
> Allowing multiple OSs to coexist on your machine becomes child's play.
> MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, Linux and all other OSs can share disk space
> without interfering with each other.
> 
> If you aren't convinced, you can take a look at a detailed list of the
> functionality [fonctionnalites] of MBoot.
> 
> The system documentation [documentation] gives detailed instructions on the
> use and installation of MBoot.  The FAQ [FAQ] covers frequently encountered
> problems.
> 
> The archive containing MBoot, the installer and the documentation is
> accessible on the download [telechargement] page.
> 
> You can also be informed of new versions by subscribing to the MBoot mailing
> list [liste de diffusion MBoot].
> 
> 1.2.7 - Fixed an error where some new BIOSs will refuse to process the MBR
> of a disk without an active partition by setting one partition active, even
> if it is not the chosen partition.
> 
> 1.2.6 - Resolved a conflict between older versions and versions higher than
> 1.2.4
>     - Set default language to French
>     - If the default partition is not found and only one bootable partition
> exists, this partition is started after the normal delay (previously it
> would wait indefinitely for user input).
> 
> 1.2.5 - Some minor application and installer code changes.
> 
> 1.2.4 - (More "Inaccessible Boot Device" errors?) when starting Windows NT
> (apparently only with Ultra-DMA disks, if someone could explain why...).
> 
> 1.2.1 - Correction of a bug that detected Pentium II chips as Cyrix.
> 
> 1.2.0 - Added access to floppy drives.
> 
> 1.0.4 - First distributed version, with installer.
> 
> 0.81 - New fonts throughout, new screens, MultiDisc, 32 character names,
> handling of extended partitions, completion of installer.
> 
> 0.70 - Interface.
> 
> 0.10 - First version, choose partition with keyboard, no (?????)
> 
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> 
> The download page [telechargement] is fairly self explanatory.  1.2.7
> contains the installer as well as HTML documentation and the FAQ.
> 
> I haven't tried this so I can't vouch for how it works.  My apologies to the
> francophones for any errors of translation :-).
> 
> Brian Wiens
> 
> "Sharp, Lee" wrote:
> 
> >    I saw a link to what someone claimed was a much better boot manager
> > than Lilo.  The problem is that the web page, and docs are in french.
> > Does anyone here know someone who speaks french?  ;-)  Is this something
> > worth looking at?
> >
> > http://home.nordnet.fr/~llejczyk/mboot/index.html
> >
> >                         Lee
> 
> 

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			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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