--- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, Richard C Steiner  wrote:
>
> Quoting uvcceet :

> I've already installed everything that I need on that particular
machine.
> 
> However, the GUI installation routine in the last version of eCS
that I played
> with (eCS 1.1) was such a huge improvement over eCS 1.0 or the
previous betas
> that I was quite impressed, and the fact that it preinstalls a lot
of stuff
> would save me time were I to have to start over from scratch.
 > From my perspective, it was worth the cost, if only to see that
> I now have a means of reinstalling OS/2 without too much effort
should something
> catastrophic happen to my existing installation.
> 

Hi Rich, I'm in trouble  here :-) but I do want to point out that I
tried ecomstation as well, being one of the first buyers, nt because I
needed it, but  because I thought I owed it to the company to invest
in  my favorite OS, and their efforts. I got v1.0, and was not at all
impressed, and will just leave it at that 

I had a rock solid, reliable Warp4 install doing all that I needed,
until I needed CAD and a few other things eCS cannot offer, so I had
to bail. I wish there had been a reliable virtual PC program at the
time. Might have made all the difference.... 

If you have one of those wonderful OS/2 stations clocking along
nicely, I hope you  have used DFSEE to clone it, and insure that you
will never have to reinstall it, ever. That is a nice utility, and I
use it constantly. Backups are a thing of the past  Given the ease
of moving OS/2 between systems, it  has also allowed me to just clone
the system I was using a few years ago, right onto my machine today.
Yes, it took a few tweaks, but I do know remember how to do most
things under the hood on OS/2. 

The ecs installer is said to be nice, but I don't install it more than
once, so it has no intrinsic value, from this perspective.

However, I have also been unable to make the networking work with my
comcast setup, which leaves me where I was two years ago, so I think
my experiment may have been in vain. It was really cool seeing all
that old stuff up and working, and it brought back a lot of nostalgia,
and good times. :-)

Still, its nice to see that the passion, no matter how misdirected or
implemented, still exists for a terrific operating system.

Thanks,

John




 
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