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@Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:12:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: ECS is a challenge?
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--- "Don[ald] O. Woodall" 
wrote:
> In
>
,
> on 11/13/03 
>    at 09:54 PM, Franklin 
> said:
> 
> >I guess if I install it enough times, I'll figure
> it
> >out. I first installed it on my laptop. IBM T21. It
> >has win98 on it, I made a smaller partition for
> win98,
> >put ECS after, no BM. In order to switch to
> windows, I
> >need to use a bootable CD to change the startable
> >partition as LVM won't show the win98 partition.
> 
>      There is a very simple concept involved here. 
> LVM
> does not show PARTITIONS.  You need to "Volumize"
> the
> partition, and it will then show in LVM and Boot
> Manager.
> 
>      Take a partition, put it in a software wrapper
> and
> you have a "Volume."  The software wrapper isolates
> the
> "Volume" from the hardware limitations a partition
> is
> subject to.
> 
>      When a partition is "Volumized", a little info
> is
> written to an unused portion of the partition table
> space so DOS and Windows won't see anything
> different
> and things will work as always with them.

I guess I didn't understand during installation about
hiding the windows directory so OS/2 wouldn't see it.
I selected to keep it hidden. I am also thinking if I
get LILO working again I won't have to change this? I
had the LILO code residing on the windows partition.

> 
> >Not bad, miss my warpcenter.
> 
>      Well, you don't have to.  It has been renamed
> to
> "eComCenter."  You can find the icon for it in
> 
>       Programs > Utilities
> 
>      The default installs the "eCenter."  With
> widgets
> it is possible to get all the functionality of the
> Warp
> Center in the "eCenter."
> 
>      You can have both "eCenter" and "eComCenter"
> installed
> at the same time.  Or if you prefer, two copies of
> "eCenter." To do this,
> you install one "eCenter", rename it, then
> install eCenter again.
> 
Thanks for this info, I will check it out. Maybe ECS
will be a lot of fun!

Franklin


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