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Many PC users want to use more than one operating
system on their PCs. For example if you want to test a new version of Windows
like Windows 2000, which is the successor of Windows
NT or another operating system
like Linux, FreeBSD or Be's new
free multimedia operating system BeOS for PCs. Or
if you just want to
protect your important work from playing with new software from the internet or from computer
games using multiple copies of Windows kept strictly apart is very useful.
System Selector is a boot manager software allowing you to have more
than one operating system on your PC.
System Selector's boot menu
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System Selector is a light-weight, easy-to-use boot manager
program which
allows to install more than one operating system on one PC. System Selector has a lot of
useful features.
With System Selector you can create a boot menu
with boot entries for every operating system installed on your PC and/or also
with special entries for a number of other purposes like resetting the PC,
powering-off the PC, booting from the floppy drive, etc.. You can install
this boot menu either on any hard disk (into any FAT formatted volume) or
on a floppy disk, LS-120 disk or ZIP disk with IDE (ATAPI) or SCSI
interface.
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System Selector can boot almost any operating system including the
following:
- MS-DOS
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT
- Windows 2000
- AIX
- Amoeba
- BeOS
- BSDI BSD/OS
- DR-DOS
- FreeBSD
- FreeDOS
- ISC Unix
- GNU Hurd
- Linux
- Mach
- Minix
- NetBSD
- NeXTSTEP
- Novell NetWare
- OpenBSD
- OPENSTEP
- OS/2
- PC-DOS
- PTS-DOS
- QNX
- SCO OpenServer
- SCO UnixWare
- Solaris
- THEOS
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System Selector's boot menu editor
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- can boot almost any existing operating system
- supports booting from any primary and any
logical partition on any disk (as long as supported by the
respective operating system itself)
- detects a lot of operating systems
automatically and selects automatically appropriate boot options for
these systems
- is able to boot MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows ME easily from any hard disk if these are installed properly
- is able to boot the free BeOS 5
Personal Edition directly without booting into Windows or DOS before
from its virtual file based partition residing inside a Windows
partition
- unlimited number of boot menu entries in a
boot menu possible
- several boot menus (on different installation
targets) are possible
- menu entries can be also special entries, e.g.
for booting from floppy, LS-120, ZIP drives, for restarting the PC,
powering off the PC, booting other boot loaders from files, for
supporting the installation of operating systems
- automatic uninstallation feature
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- can hide any primary or any single logical
partition
- partition hiding can be configured separately
for every boot menu entry (including the special menu
entries)
- optional password protection for every boot
menu entry possible
- administrator password (setup password)
possible
- can coexist with other boot managers (e.g.
with the Windows NT/2000 boot menu, the OS/2 boot manager and others)
- can boot other boot loaders which reside in files
on any drives with FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32 file system
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- System Selector is a single, small executable
file; it's very easy to move it around and to install it quickly
everywhere
- can be installed on any
FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32 primary or logical partition on any hard disk;
this partition can be very small and it can even stay invisible all
the time if desired
- can be also installed on and boot from floppy drives,
LS-120 drives or ZIP drives with IDE (ATAPI) interface or SCSI
interface - if supported by the respective SCSI host adapter
- unlike other less sophisticated booting
programs System Selector doesn't rely on the availability of a certain
small free area on the first hard disk; this small area is in
fact not always free and hence those other booting programs are
incompatible with most IDE disk manager software and some operating
systems which are using this space and moreover they are in fact very
susceptible to be easily overwritten by some nasty boot sector viruses
- changing the entries or the configuration of a boot menu
doesn't require any running operating system - unlike most other
booting programs
- the configuration (setup) can be invoked
directly from the boot menu itself; that means it's not necessary to
boot into DOS or Windows just to change the boot menu entries or the boot
menu configuration
- System Selector doesn't need a bloated
installation program - it can install itself everywhere everytime even
from a started boot menu itself when no operating system is running
- System Selector can be installed from a
Windows 95/98/ME DOS window ("DOS box") without problems
- if other programs (e.g. during the
installation of a Windows 95, 98, ME or
2000) deactivate the installed boot menu, it's enough to invoke System
Selector from the DOS command line, a DOS window under Windows, or to
boot it from a floppy/LS-120/ZIP and it will find every previous boot
menu which then can be reinstalled immediately
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- supports up to 128 hard disks and 128
removable disk drives in a PC
- disks bigger than 8GB and also bigger than
32GB are supported and booting from beyond the 8GB boundary (the "1024
cylinder" boundary) is supported
- can boot Windows 95B, 95C, Windows 98, 98SE,
Windows ME and Windows 2000 from partitions which start beyond the 8GB
boundary
- is able to boot Linux (when using
LILO v21.4.4 or newer) and BeOS 4.x, 5.x and newer from
partitions which start beyond the 8GB boundary
- is able boot Linux, BeOS 4.x, 5.x
and newer also directly from logical
partitions from any disk
- supports the int 13h extensions and LBA disk
access for any disk
- compatible with Phoenix/Intel/Microsoft BIOS
Boot Specification
- can coexist with Ontrack DiskManager (an IDE
disk manager tool) and its OEM derivatives
- supports booting from floppy drives, LS-120
drives, ZIP-drives with IDE/ATAPI interface or SCSI interface
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Last Change: 07/25/00
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