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Date:	Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:10:54 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SC & eCs

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Hi Jordon,

I did some playing around with this combination on my "experimental"
computer. I am using SC V. 7.0 and with it, eCS looks just like OS/2. It
works just fine along with other operating systgems. It was a while ago
that I installed it, but I don't remember any particular problems.

Sandy

>Ray Davison wrote:

>> Someone said eCS would not work under SC, then someone said yes it
>> would. How about a straight story with details. The cost to me of
>> giving up SC would be unacceptable.

>In some conversations with Steven a while back, he speculated that System
>Commander might do some housekeeping stuff in the MBR area (?), where the
>LVM component of eCs (? -- should have written this down, rather than
>rely on memory) might well overwrite or otherwise interfere with it. SC
>-- at least the older version I've been using for a very long time --
>needs to operate out of a DOS FAT C: that exists at the beginning of your
>hard drive. I'm not aware that they ever changed that. A while back, I
>was bugging the SC tech. dept. about this, to get a definitive answer for
>my column, as well as for personal use. They kept saying they would
>provide such an answer, but never did. Maybe I should have one more
>go-'round with them.

>Steven also suggested that Jan might have some info on this, so I
>mentioned it to him back when he did his DFSEE presentation at SCOUG . .
>. but nothing really came of that either.

>Since I'm finally about to upgrade a bunch of components, which I wanted
>to get out of the way before installing eCs, this issue now has more
>urgency. But unless I find out otherwise -- *in time* -- I plan to err
>on the side of caution, and (very reluctantly) toss SC, to be replaced by
>the much more spartan Boot Mgr. of eCs. It won't have the various
>convenience features of SC, but I hope that will suffice for mediating my
>multi-OS boot options.

>Jordan

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