
FreeLDR installer for OS/2 and eComstation.

This installer for FreeLDR installs FreeLDR in the bootsector
and bootblock on the partition you choose.

Prereqisites:

You need to copy the complete FreeLDR package into \Boot
dir on the partition, that you want to install it to.
FreeInst.exe must be placed on any other partition.

Start FreeInst.exe, and
- select the partition you want to install to
- choose 'Install FreeLDR'

This will create a backup of your bootblock in same dir
as FreeInst.exe (FreeInst can l8r reinstall this BootBlock,
if you want to reverse the change), and it will install
FreeLDR in your BootBlock.

Filesystem considerations.

FAT:   No problems.

FAT32: If you want to boot to a FAT32 partition, the current available 
       bootmanagers can't handle this. In such case you need to install 
       our MBR code too.

HPFS:  No problems.

JFS:   Some beta versions of JFS for eCS 2.0 will TRAP your system,
       when you try to 'Install FreeLDR'. 
       Please update to the v 1.9.x JFS builds from betazone to avoid this.
       A workaround is to use the included JFS.IFS - but it might not work 
       with Bootable JFS.
       Another problem is, that JFS wipes out our boot code every time
       it runs chkdsk (including autocheck on boot).
       Therefore, we do currently not recommend to try it on JFS, although
       it works well.

Floppy: Should be working, but it seems it currently doesn't :-)


Problems ?

Ask us at: irc://efnet/#osfree
