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Hi All (and Happy New Year) --=20
Contrary to the "It's really a breeze now" demos we've had at meetings, my=
attempts to install eCS 1=2E2 on a partition of the Shuttle box yesterday
were a resounding failure=2E The install was done to the lesser (in terms=
of
installed app=2Es and degree of customization) of two eCS 1=2E1 boot parti=
tions
on the hard drive=2E This was NOT a migration: I zeroed out the contents =
of
the partition first, though I had imaged it with DFSEE before doing this
_and_ also made a full PKZIP backup of the former 1=2E1 contents=2E
Phase One of the installation seemed to proceed to completion=2E THEN, th=
e
first install hangup took me over an hour to figure out=2E At the start o=
f
Phase Two, I thought the installer was *still* cliff-diving because of the=
presence of the JFS line in Config=2ESys (which had been fatal on some
hardware, apparently including the Shuttle), meaning that this problem
never did get fixed from the 1=2E1 installer=2E But, even after I REMmed =
the
JFS line out, the process still hung somewhere very nearby=2E I tried
REMming out various other things, but none of it worked=2E It turned out
that the choke point was "Autocheck:*" on the HPFS line=2E Must be the
existing NTFS partitions causing indigestion=2E D'Oh ! When I made
Autocheck match the specs of the *other* eCS partition, the installer coul=
d
go on past that point =2E =2E =2E for a while=2E
The next roadblock seemed to be that Peer install failed=2E "The second
phase of installation aborted with error code 21=2E" The log says "Produc=
t
returned 0x003, unexpected condition=2E"
The installer did nothing beyond this point=2E (No Phase Three=2E) No SN=
AP,
No eCenter, No MM, etc=2E This leaves a bare, minimalist, VGA desktop tha=
t
looks to be not very useful=2E I tried RESUME=2ECMD as the install bookle=
t
suggests=2E The MPTS setup opening screen flashes on for a split second, =
and
then disappears=2E (There seems to be at least one additional log associa=
ted
with this, and I could quote from it, if I knew what to look for=2E) =20
I note that this partial install laid down about 277M worth of files=2E T=
he
surviving 1=2E1 boot partition has 487M=2E Some of that difference will b=
e due
to things I installed there, like UniMaint, but it doesn't begin to
approach 200M=2E The heavy hitters like Lotus and so forth reside on a
separate app=2Es partition=2E
Is this entirely fixable, from where it stands ? Starting over from
scratch will most likely yield very similar results=2E Perhaps I would ha=
ve
done better migrating over top of the prior 1=2E1, vs=2E the clean install=
?=20
Couldn't have been too much worse=2E
Judging from the SCOUG website and the Help List, I gather that the next
Live Help Desk is *not* taking place on Sun=2E 1/2=2E That would mean it'=
s
probably next Sunday, when I may be out of town=2E =20
All assistance welcome=2E
Jordan
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