Zipping partition - that sounds most likely to me

Post #6,718 by jake123 8/26/01 8:27:17 AM Reply	Zipping partition - that sounds most likely to me Hi Darryl! Yes, I think that the zip up and dump route is the likeliest success. What exactly is the problem you're having? Is it booting off the CD? If so, try running makedisk.cmd on the root of CD1... or, if you have a wacky driver situation, use mdnocsm.cmd so you can add the drivers you need manually... this means you won't get the funky boot menu thingy, but you can get the default eCS install and get it going... BTW- when they say that 64 MB RAM is the minimum for the new install, they mean it; if you try under 32 MB it will run out of ram part way through the boot process. You can get around this if you have a partition on the HD you can swap to by modifying the swap entry in the advanced config.sys menu. Hope this helps! -- ---------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at jakesplace.dhs.org * * [link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org]] [link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org]] * * Montr\ufffdal PQ Canada [link\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org] * ----------------------------------------------------------
Post #6,732 by SpiceWare 8/26/01 5:53:30 PM Reply	Tried lots of things. The laptop has 160MB (128 + 32). I've tried installing with that as well as 64MB (32 + 32). On CD1, the system boots off CD fine, though it "pauses" after s:\\eCS\\VCSHDD.SYS. Hitting return a bunch once it pauses will get it going again. Eventually the install screen comes up, but the movie locks up the system. The chess, solitare, and mahjongg intro movies locked up Warp 4.0, so I'm guessing the movie routines don't like my hardware and haven't been updated. Kim Cheung had me try putting the contents of the CD onto my D: partition(which I formatted to HPFS after archiving the Windows stuff so I could restore it later). Once done, I've done various things at Kim's direction to prevent the movie from starting, which worked fine. However, when I stop through to the "disk space needed" screen, the values are xxx MB and the NEXT button stays inactive. We've tried various things to get past that. I gave CD2 a go around and no luck with it either. First I tried it booting from CD. The system locks up on IBM's IDE driver, so I rebooted and hit D to use Daniela's replacement driver. However, system then locks up again, which I was sort of expecting based on issues I had installing Warp 4(I needed to use Daniela's driver PLUS disable hardware detect). I then made boot floppies and replaced IBM1S506.ADD with Daniela's (renamed DANIS506 to IBM1S506 on the floppy). Bootup went fine, and there was no longer an option to hit D for Daniela's driver(I'm guessing the install noticed it was already using it). So I disabled hardware detect, selected the partition, and the system locked up when I told it to format the partition with HPFS. The lockup occurred with a continuous tone coming out the PC speaker. Then I booted to command line using CD1 and pre-formatted the partition. Booted from floppies, skipped the format option, and the install proceeded fine and copied files to the hard drive. After a while it locked up again with the continuous tone out the PC speaker. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #6,936 by jake123 8/28/01 8:14:23 AM Reply	Eesh. Sounds evil. I seriously think you should try doing the base install on another machine, and then unzipping it to the laptop. When it boots up, it may then be able to start phase 2 of the install. I don't really know too much about TPs, so there's not too much that I can offer specifically to help you... -- ---------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at jakesplace.dhs.org * * [link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org]] [link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org]] * * Montr\ufffdal PQ Canada [link\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org] * ----------------------------------------------------------
Post #7,081 by SpiceWare 8/29/01 10:58:14 AM Reply	Will try this weekend Spent the weekend moving the company to our new facility. Nothing like 12-15 hour days back-to-back to make you not want to do anything at home but sleep :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #7,300 by static 8/30/01 11:51:23 PM Reply	You have my sympathies. I once spent a rather long Saturday moving a heap of encryption equipment - and a safe (shudder) - from one site to another. It is not something I will do again in a hurry. At least I had some company; virtually the whole comms group were there, too, moving a mini-computer. (We were emptying the last live equipment from one site which had been sold.) Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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