madodel wrote:
> Jim Read wrote:
>> --- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, "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
>> Basil,
>>
>> I just bought a new AMD quad processor machine with SATA II drives.
>> Naturally RC4 would not install on it - because of the stupidity of
>> RC4 having a 3 yr old DANI IDE driver in it. My solution which worked
>> very well was to use WinXP and a shareware app named Active ISO File
>> Manager (full featured for 14 days, lots of others can do this but
>> won't do over 300MB ISO until registered) to modify the ISO. It simply
>> extracts the files in the ISO to a local dir. Change whatever you
>> wish. It then rebuilds the ISO and then burns it if desired. Worked
>> like a charm. If you do it, make sure you recreate the ISO with the
>> Joliet file system, otherwise the non-8.3 file names in the ISO (there
>> are quite a few) will fail the install at some point.
>
>
>
> I just tried the same using NetDrive with the ISOFS plugin.  It reads the
> eCS 2.0 RC4 ISO fine, but when I try to drag an updated danis506.add to it
> (using FileStar 3.0) it says that the media is read only.  Though the
> NetDrive Control Panel shows it as writable.  Anyone know of a way to do
> this under eCS?  I suppose one could do the same as Jim did in xp and copy
> all the files to disk, replace the DANIS506.ADD and then use mkisof2.exe to
> write a new ISO image, but the NetDrive plugin sounded like a more
> "OS/2"-like experience, if only it had worked.
>
> Mark
>
As I understand it, ISOFS is read only... which I really wish it were 
read/write. Both the netdrive plugin and Paul Ratcliffe's IFS are read 
only from what I can find and haven't found any other ideas so far.
Andy

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