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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:59:23 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Looking forward to the new & improved installer

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In <41465D11.49887CB1@pacbell.net>, on 09/13/04
at 06:54 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>Maybe it's possible
>to just clone the eCS partitions, retrofit LVM and eCS Boot Mgr., then
>maybe do a SYSINSTX (?),

It should be. A SYSINSTX should not be required. It updates OS2BOOT and
the partition boot record and this is part of what is cloned.

>This ultimately worked,
>but it was hardly as quick or easy as I had hoped.

No. It will not be. Lots of broken objects, most likely.

>What I ran into were the same clumsy roadblocks we ran into at the Help
>Desk, and had to leap over by various means . . . better known to you
>than to me. Do these jog your memory ? :

>Phase 2 Install Error: {shows window w/ Setup Cmd} "
>E:\ecs\install\quideproc.exe E:\ecs\install\nls\EN\eiendph2.gps
>E:\ecs\install "

Sorta, although the details are fuzzy. My memory says we never really
resolved the issue with the DOS partitions volume name.

> Say What ? And who knew there was a global positioning
>satellite involved ?!

You didn't know this?

>In fact, Phase 2 never completes. The JFS line is still a fatal Dead
>Stop at reboots.

One day this will rise to the top of your list and we will figure out what
is confused about what. Who knows? It might just go away with eCS 1.2.

>perfect installation scripts, that happen to work on *everyone's*
>hardware. (However, you did happen to describe *this* hardware as plain
>Vanilla, from what you could observe.)

I also noted the your choice of DOS partition naming might be an issue.
The problem you have is not a hardware problem.

>Hopefully, potholes like this will be long gone from the 1.2 installer.

Maybe yes. Maybe no. I'm sure there will be some different potholes.

>then image writeback, then a full Win-32 CHKDSK -- THAT seems to work.
>All Trial & Error, learning this the hard way, as usual.]

True enough. Jan probably knows an easier way.

Steven

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