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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:40:15 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: July Mr. KIA column

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Evidently, I have seriously misunderstood a key point of Kim
Cheung's SCOUG presentations, and published reports elsewhere.
To wit (quoting from the July column):

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Like many newcomers to eCS, Peter was confused about what eCS is
and what the distinctions are between the bootable CD installer,
the eCS demo CD and eCS the product.

Peter states:

"eCS boots from CD and can be run from the CD without installing
to a hard drive"

This is not exactly true. the eCS install CD is bootable as will
be the demo CD and ISV custom CD's; however, what most OS/2 users
think of as eCS will be installed to a hard drive and will boot
from the hard disk not a CD. For these users, the bootable
install CD does little more than avoid the need to create the 4
installation diskettes. The CD may also be able to replace
utility diskettes for emergency maintenance, but this depends on
exactly what is available on the installation CD. As of today,
the exact content of the CD is not documented on a publicly
accessible site.

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It had been my impression that a revolutionary feature of the ECS
(GA) would be that one could make a bootable ECS CD that was
_fully customized_ with one's own warp (icons, Desktop layout,
wallpaper -- the whole 9 yards), and as much of one's installed
app.s as would fit on the CD, and take this on the road: boot up
on (most of) whatever guest machines that one encounters
(assuming they have a CD reader, which most do these days), and
enjoy much of the computing comforts of home. If correct, this
would have been a most impressive trick that no other OS I'm
aware of can pull off. Show that to WIN users, and they would
have to be envious. But now you're telling me this ain't true
?? Or does this apply only to the ISV Custom CDs, not available
to mere mortals ? Please clarify.

P.S.: perhaps as an extension to my possible misunderstanding of
the feature mentioned above, it was also my impression that the
bootable _Custom_ CD one could make would have huge implications
regarding system restoration, in the event of some disaster.

Jordan

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