Julian Thomas wrote:

>In , on 01/07/05 
>   at 06:41 PM, Mike O'Connor  typed:
>
>>Although I can't comment on Impos/2 [never had it], it is good to hear 
>>that someone other than Dani has got an OS/2-eCS system actually running 
>>on an AMD 64-bit processor!
>>    
>>
>A number of us have it running on an AMD64.
>
Good to know [for the distant future here]!

>  The problem is with the
>installer, and last I checked had not been resolved, but there IS a
>workaround.  Install on another system, either to the hard drive you will
>then move to the AMD64 (this was not an option for me, since the new
>machine has a SATA drive and I have no SATA on any other machine, and
>wasn't about to go out and buy a card), OR [what I did] install to a
>partition on an existing machine - making sure the drive letter is what
>you will eventually be using on the '64.  Zip this up and put it on the
>'64 machine, use dfsee/lvm to set up the partitions and boot manager, and
>then boot from the eCS CD and unzip the boot partition.
>
>The installer will make guesses based on the machine being used for the
>install, but you can override these with the right choices for the '64
>machine. 
>  
>
Hi Julian,

Yes, I had seen comments in the past from Roderick Klein of Mensys about 
alternate ways to actually accomplish the installation on an AMD64.  But 
as usual one hears most about the failures, not the successes!

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Regards,
Mike

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