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Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 14:57:36 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: I.D. installed 2.0 Beta

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Sorry I couldn't make the meeting yesterday.

I just got around to installing Release 4 of the eCS
2.0 Beta. (There did not seem to be a problem burning
the 716 Mb ISO with RSJ -- no overburning needed, or
special extended CD, or DVD required, as things turned
out.) The install *failed* to put PEER on, but this
is nothing new for me, at least on the sff box with
its two built-in Nics. (The only time I managed a
full & complete install -- and in *One Pass*, too --
was with 1.2MR, and I think I may just have gotten
lucky that time.) What was a bit different was that
this time the Peer install failure seems to have
generated no warning messages and no record, and it
did not abort / truncate the eCS install as a whole.

My first glimmer that something was amiss was when the
install hung at the Beta 4 splash screen, and the
floppy drive light stayed on, for no apparent reason.
A curious freeze. (I mean, what does the floppy drive
have to do with this ?) And later, I confirmed that
there was *nothing* in the Local Network folder but
"Help." The more things change, the more they stay
the same . . . .

I've adopted Ray's standard procedure of doing these
installs on a spare drive, where eCS becomes the first
and only thing on a previously clean drive. I agree
that this works best . . . for whatever reason.

Other than that, my first impression is that they've
got 2.0 looking very snazzy. I look forward to a more
extensive test drive.

I've re-found another spare drive that had gone
missing for awhile, on which I had installed a
previous eCS 2.0 beta some unknown period of time ago.
I'm thinking it must have been either the 1st. or
2nd. beta, but I don't find any record to clue me in.
VER. just returns 4.50, and the kernel on these has
remained 1.03a for a long, long time -- so, not very
helpful. At bootup, it says "Technology Preview."
Can anyone tell me how to i.d. which of the 4 betas
this was ? (Maybe more than 4: wasn't at least one of
them re-issued in a corrected version ?)

Incidentally, I'm seeing some "Your Subscription Has
Expired" type notices at Mensys download, which I
thought was not going to effect those of us who did
the last SCOUG group buy *quite yet*, but it seems to
depend on the exact bookmarked URL I'm using, because
one of them still gets me in.

Jordan

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