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Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:17:47 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Help, I'm Trapped

===================================================== If you are responding to someone asking for help who may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program. ===================================================== In <20040330055204.68211.qmail@web80202.mail.yahoo.com>, on 03/30/04 at 03:03 AM, Harry Motin said: >I was not able to get the system to read the registration data from a >diskette. Wouldn't do that. There were really no instructions on exactly >how do to it (how to put the data on a diskette). Had to write in all the >registration stuff manually during the install. > >I installed the IBM performance IDE drivers. Did not take a chance on >Dani's drivers. Will change my system to her drivers later. Also, I used >the IBM COM.SYS driver instead of the SIO.SYS one. ECS properly detected >my Adaptec SCSI system. > >On phase 1 of the install my system hung at the APM.SYS loading. I >rebooted, using the installation CD, and got to a commandline. Per the >instructions in the booklet, I REM'ed out all 3 instances of APM.SYS in >the CONFIG.SYS. Then, per the instructions I copyed the FAQ.TXT document >to a diskette, so that I could read it on another computer. I wanted to >be able to pick up the installation at the start of phase 1 instead of >going back to the beginning. The instructions in the FAQ.TXT did not >work. There was no file, E:\...\install\phase1.cmd, on my hard drive. >Therefore, I could not use it to restart the phase 1 installation. >Nevertheless, I pulled the CD, rebooted, using the hard drive, then put >the CD back into the bay before the bootup completed. The system came up >and completed the installation, using the CD. I then reinstated the >APM.SYS lines in the CONFIG.SYS. > >Everything seems to be OK, but I have not tested or seen everything yet. > >A couple of questions: > > 1. How do I set up the system to turn off the motherboard upon >shutdown. I know it's there, somewhere in a configuration notebook. I >just cannot find it. > > 2. I have 3 JFS LVM volumes on my first hard disk. Upon bootup the >system runs CHKDSK on these 3 volumes everytime. It takes only maybe 10 >seconds, but is that the way it's supposed to work? I thought JSF volumes >did not need CHKDSK. Is there any way to get it to not run CHKDSK on >these JFS volumes? > >I'm now going to work to restore my system to something like its past >usefulness (install Back Again 2000, Injoy, Norman AV, Mozilla, check for >a working Internet connection and File and Print Client, etc.). HCM >Larry Tawa wrote: >===================================================== >If you are responding to someone asking for help who >may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the >REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program. >===================================================== >In <68123.12.48.25.29.03.2004@constellation.carrier>, on 03/29/2004 at >12:43 PM, "J. R. Fox" said: >>Larry Tawa wrote: >>> (b) avoid the SIO 2.00 driver included without reservation; >>I didn't have any problem with the (eCS default) install of SIO 2, or >>after the install. (It may depend on what h/w you have.) Don't recall >>if I actually did a test connection under eCS. I will try that again at >>some convenient time. >Jordan, >Point well taken. SIO 2.00, indeed YMMV. I should have refrained from >stating "included without reservation"; But, will I use SIO 2.00 on any >machine - no. I own one copy of Sio 2.03 professional , possibly two >copies, which I am *not* using. I'll bet you a cup of coffee that the >next released version of eCS will either have SIO 2.03 non-professional >version or else this driver will not be installed as default. >*Most* installs can use the base eCS 1.1 install; ie the dani driver in >performance mode or apparently SIO 2.00 non-professional version. >Based on the prior failed installs of others, I noted that a number of >these had problems with dani and/or sio. Thus when I had problems with my >eCS 1.1 install on the ASUS A7N8X motherboard, I focused my attack on the >failed install on dani and sio. The traps/stalls with sio were scattered, >not always reproducible but were real. The dani performance error on my >system appeared to occur in the network install portion (early in phase >1). >So if one has problems with a base eCS 1.1 install, I suggest first to >look at dani and sio. As well as check the readme files. >As for installing only Java 1.1.8 without other javas, no IBM WebBrowser, >VGA install to minimize the extra components in the base eCS install and >IMO would thus apply to everyone. After the eCS base install, (1) add >whatever the *latest* version of java that you desire; (2) install the >latest Mozilla, Firebird browser version (have this available on a CD or >elsewher on your hard drive); (3) install SNAP (shareware) without having >residual Scitech Display Doctor (SDD) on your hard drive. If no SNAP, you >could simply install SDD, although I have been told that if installing a >performance OS, and eCS is a performance eCS, install VGA first, then >after a complete install use your latest video driver such as the latest >SDD/se available form Serenity. >To me eCS 1.1 install is significantly different and improved from eCS >1.0; I expect the next verion of eCS will again be significantly >different and improved all-around. >Larry -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.41 #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.093c_W4 www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.info irc.fyrelizard.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message, put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help". 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