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Date:	Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:55:23 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SC & eCs

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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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