Post #4,237
8/8/01 2:26:25 PM
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Forgot an important item!
When using the boot floppies, don't put the CD in until after the booting from floppy has begun! Otherwise, the SCSI controller makes the CD into A: and then you're booting from CD, not floppy.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #4,246
8/8/01 3:26:00 PM
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Re: Forgot an important item!
You are right! By chance I did just that (after copying aic7870.add to diskette 0 and adding a line basedev=aic7870.add to config.x) and things seemed to be going along well. It asked for all 3 diskettes, then switched to the cdrom. Unfortunately, after loading in a bunch of files (it looks like the controlling config.sys is the one on the cd) things stopped:
"The file S:\\OS2\\PMSHELL.EXE specified in the PROTSHELL statement on line 214 of the CONFIG.SYS file does not contain a valid program."
The program is present on the cd, so now I am looking for further help. Is this perhaps connected with the os2ldr patch?
Clyde
Clyde Stauffer
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Post #4,314
8/8/01 9:32:01 PM
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Did you enable USB?
I had that error if I selected USB. The only option I took to install was Adaptec 7870.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #4,339
8/9/01 8:31:03 AM
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Re: Did you enable USB?
No. Going through the boot floppy route, with the aic7870.add on the floppy, I never got the 3 options menu. Maybe that is where things went awry. I am going to give it another try in a few minutes, after cleaning up this morning's e-mail.
Clyde Stauffer
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Post #4,346
8/9/01 9:46:27 AM
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There are 2 sets of "boot floppies"
One that works exactly like the CD boot sequence(with a menu to choose options, such as which SCSI controller) and another that you have to modify. I used the first one, there was no need to add aic7870.add to any of the floppies.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #4,856
8/13/01 11:00:30 AM
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Any luck?
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #5,023
8/14/01 10:14:16 AM
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Re: Any luck?
Got eCS installed on my (all-SCSI) desktop by making modifiable diskettes from CD1, entering "basedev.aic7870.add" into config.x and copying that driver onto the diskette. Rebooting after phase 1 hung the system, until I added that same line to config.sys. Then things went along as advertised.
For my 16MB ram laptop I made diskettes from CD2 and installed much like the Warp4 installation. Following that I ran convert.exe and now have a eCS desktop there also.
So -- Yes, finally, I seem to have some luck installing eCS. Now I will just play with it a while, and decide whether or not it is an advance over Warp4 w/FP15.
Thanks for your interest and help.
Clyde Stauffer
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Post #5,029
8/14/01 11:09:11 AM
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Good - I'm still working on my thinkpad
Kim Cheung is having me try various things, but no luck yet. I've copied the contents of the CD to a temp partition(D:) on my drive, renamed the "playintroduction.cmd" file to "donotplay.cmd" and install from the hard drive(boot the CD but change the 3 install settings from S: to D:). Nothing locks up, but the system doesn't let me start the install. I get to the screen where I can select which video driver to install, but the memory amounts for base and multimedia show XXX MB and the NEXT button isn't enabled.
I see in the [link|news://news.ecomstation.nl/ecomstation.support.install|eCS Install Support] newsgroup that he's posted something else for me to try tonight when I get home.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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