--- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, Herbert Rosenau  wrote:

> 
> Have you ever tried to install a WARP4 on a PC from 1996 without 
> modifying config.sys, replacing the disk driver, and after install 
> installing an display driver, searching thereafter a network driver 
> that will work with the on board NIC? I was in the 5 years 1995 - 2000 
> not one time able to get a WARP4 installed without the hassle to 
> prepare the installation diskkettes or even first creating them from 
> the CD. Install without fiddeling some hours around to get the base 
> system on the current state, then fiddeling around to get networking 
> right, then, after in total 3 tays 8h/day to have the system working 
> and ready to start the apps I use regulary.

You really never learned how to do this right, did you? :-) 

I did a lot of playing around for the first few years of Warp 4, but
somewhere I am guessing, around 97, I installed it, and that was the
last time I had to do it. Every PC, just copied the existing system
over to the new machine, all the way up to a 1.8P4 Asus MB. Fiddling
around? That's for people who don't know what they are doing.......

This afternoon, I took that 9 year old install and copied it from the
CD to my 3G Intel MB, added an Intel NIC, and its running just fine.
Not sure why you  have had so much trouble with it. No need to
reinstall each time you move to new hardware.

> 
> In 2000 as I bought my first eCS it was a dream: insert CD, boot up to 
> prebootscreen select the SCSI adapter there and run the install - fire 
> the installer up, selct some options not already selected, select the 
> NIC already unzipped on HD, click and let start the installer to do 
> its work, went to kitchen for cooking and drinking a cup of coffee, 
> come back and the system is ready for work.


Whoop dee doo..... 
> 
> Yes, but not for eCS.


The topic is NOT eCS, its OS/2 Warp v4. 

I bought eCS 1.0. It was a piece of crap. the installer was broken,
LVM was screwed up, and frankly, just nothing but eye candy, but hey,
if I throw another $150 their way, I can have all the stuff I already
paid $150 for, long ago..... No thanks.

John





 
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