--- 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.

This machine has a ASUS M3A MB, 4 GB, 1 v16 PCI, 2 x1 PCII and 3
standard PCI slots. It installed with working LAN and sound. I took
out 2 GB memory but I think it will install with 4GB now that I have
the ISO modified. BUT ACPI, even the latest version causes such a
disk/CPU/memory slowdown that it would take all night to boot
literally! Other than that, which limits it to one CPU at the moment,
works great.

I intend to do the same with 1.2MR.

Jim







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