Andy Willis wrote:
> 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


I was afraid that was the case.  Anyone know if I copy the files from the 
ISO using NetDrive ISOFS, and then change the file, can I then just use 
mkisof2 to rebuild the ISO, will it still be bootable like the original?

Mark


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