--- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, madodel  wrote:
>
> 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

Mark,

I tried the ISOFS IFS first. It is definitely read only. I couldn't
find a way in OS2 to do it.

Another thing I ran into was in WinXP the ISO grew several MB so that
it no longer fit on a 700MB CD. I ended up using a DVD-RW to burn the
ISO. A side benefit was it burned faster and ran faster.

Jim



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