Tim Wegner wrote:
David Jones wrote:
IIRC, Boot Commander will let you have up to 26 bootable partitions.
Along the same lines, an easier approach would be to put Fractint on a bootable CD with freedos. The only complication is that if you are using Windows XP and have an NT file system, you won't be able to save the files to a hard disk. So it would be necessary to make a special FAT32 partition on the hard drive to save the files. Not too hard.
Even with a FAT32 partition, does FreeDOS work with modern sized drives?
I'll look into this later this summer. Freedos makes this possible, otherwise it would be illegal.
This idea could be extended. We could make a Linux bootable CD that ran Xfractint, and then you COULD save the files to the NT file system, but then you'd need to know something about Linux.
Not necessarily, it would depend on how you set things up. Check out the Knoppix Linus distro, for example.
There are many solutions, all of which require SOME special computer expertise.
Once made by an expert, the bootable CD idea does require you to be able to change the boot settings in the BIOS (if necessary) to get it to try booting from the CD first ... but that's it! Linux offers point-and-click file management, too. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com