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BOOTMGR and new Linux installation (Users)

posted by fritz.mueller Homepage, Munich, Germany, 20.01.2025, 12:37

> > And which Bootloader do you use?
>
> "I use the BOOTMGR boot manager from this site" ->
> https://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/
> Now I will speak about the modern one with Win10 + FreeDOS.
>So, in this machine I have one physical hard disk partitioned into three >partitions - Win10, FreeDOS and NTFS partiotion, now without OS (in the past >I tried to install WinXP but without success)

As it seems to be a new computer with 64 bit, I assumed that it uses UEFI. CSM is not often used on such machines, but it seems to used. But this is not my actual theme.

If you want to run Linux for a first test, I still recommend the Knoppix DVD as it uses RAM to boot up and you can see the GUI and test programs etc. You can see that you can read/write from your partitions (including NTFS) etc. as usual. But it does not modify the HD by itself.
In case that your new machine has no DVD-ROM you can create a bootable USB-Stick with Rufus https://rufus.ie/de/ - there is a portable version
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.6/rufus-4.6p.exe available so that you have no need to install it.

In case that you need readonly there is another one, Caine, https://www.caine-live.net/ which is more thought for forensic users, but of course you can also do a lot of other things.
There are a lot of other Linux CDs, but most of them offer the option to install, which is nice but not necessary for a first test.

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