Hi Basil,

As someone else may have already solved the problem with same hardware
- it would be a good idea to mention what the details of your 'new'
laptop are. Sorry I don't have any experience of 'editing' ISO images,
so cannot give any useful input on that.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Basil Fernie  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  After much quietness with my early eCS 1.2 installed on a 5-year old
>  desktop of stable configuration, I now have the opportunity to put it onto
>  a 6-month old laptop. But on booting for installation it hangs on loading
>  the DaniS506 driver, indicating I presume that that particular venerable
>  driverset is at a loss to deal with the current (probably SATA) hardware.
>
>  Two possible courses of action appear feasible:
>
>  1.      Update the driverset on the desktop and burn new installation CDs from
>  that
>
>  2.      Do the trickier thing, similar to what I did recently to backlevel
>  someone's new Fujitsu Amilo from Vista to XP. XP couldn't even see the
>  HDU, so I had to make an image on HDU of the XP CD, replace the standard
>  XP drivers in that image with the SATA-level drivers from the Fujitsu
>  website using a freeware utility, and burn a new XP from that. (Worked
>  fine, massive performance improvement.) In principle, I could do the same
>  thing for the eCS1.2 CDs using the XP utility, once the new
>  DANIS506xxx.exe has been exploded under eCS or Warp4 into a directory.
>
>  I seem to recall various postings dealing with Option 1 - can anyone
>  summarise the How, since this should be more straightforward? Failing
>  which, can anyone indicate whether Option 2 is viable - after all, we are
>  dealing with standard ISO images I presume?
>
>  Best regards to all,
>
>  Basil

Regards,
Mike
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