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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:18:24 -0700
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@roadrunner.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS 2.0 Didn't Last Long.

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Jordan,
I think the installation process is pretty darned good these days. All
I had to do for eCS 2.0 was tell the install not to use ACPI, and
everything worked like a charm. This is on my Dell Dimension 8400,
which I bought in January 2005. It has SATA drives (one original, one
added where eCS lives), and an added Intel PRO/1000 MT adapter.

Sound and Internet connectivity worked right out of the box after the
eCS 2.0 install. All of my data is visible, including (I think, I'll
have to go back and check) the WinXP stuff on NTFS.

All I have left to do is to figure out ACPI, migrate 3+ years of
applications to the new version of eCS, and maybe a few other things....

PMView, ProNews, OpenOffice, SeaMonkey, and who knows how much more? I
should be finished by the start of 2009 or so. (Or I could try to
migrate my eCS 1.24, if I were brave enough.)
Colin

J R FOX wrote:
> --- Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>
>> I guess eCS 1.2 just installed JFS support without
>> asking, even though
>> I'd never had a JFS volume.
>>
>
> I would have thought the installer would have a
> checkbox where you could uncheck that . . . but you
> may be right. I know I've gotten the JFS.IFS line
> when doing an install, even though I did not want it.
> In fact, it usually nixed the bootability of the fresh
> install for me, so I had to REM it out right away, in
> order to make any progress.
>
>
>> eCS 1.2's CONFIG.SYS:
>> IFS=C:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:*
>> Would I just remove the last part (/AUTOCHECK:*)?
>>
>
>
>> That is what I did, and I no longer see the CHKDSK
>> messages for the JFS
>> volume.
>>
>
> Yes, I've had similar failures, directly attributable
> to the "AutoCheck EVERYTHING" instruction in that
> line, and had to limit it very specifically to get
> around this. There are more gotchas than these that
> have been in the installer for a very long time, and
> we might have hoped they would have been weeded out
> *by now.*
>
>
> Jordan
>
>

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