Hayo Baan wrote:
> Christoph Seelhorst wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>after a long period of just running my system I have decided to have a
>>major update and purchased eCS 1.1 german.
>> 
>>
> 
> Good thing to do :-)
> 
> 
>>I have a nice and well running system (Warp4 14.044) and would like to keep
>>much of its structure and the desktop.  Is there a chance to install eCS
>>such that the desktop settings (and e.g. the Matrox display driver) can be
>>kept? As long as I do not have a new harddisk I would not even be able to
>>use JFS.
>> 
>>
> 
> Not exactly.  Though you may be lucky and successfully upgrade your 
> existing system with eCS 1.1 I (and Serenity) advise against this and 
> suggest to install a fresh system.  What you should do is:
> 
>    1. Make a backup of your existing system
>    2. Make sure your programs and data are located on a volume (i.e.,
>       partition) other than the Warp installation disk (unless you have
>       a spare partition for installing eCS, you'll probably install over
>       your existing Warp partition).
>    3. Make a backup of your desktop and other settings you may want to
>       keep.  I use object desktop's object packages to do this, but you
>       may use any tool you like.  Just make sure you can selectively
>       apply settings.  As a preparation store all you own program icons
>       in a separate folder and later only restore that.  This is what I
>       do; furthermore, whenever I install a program I always add a
>       shadow in my own folder, the original programs folder goes to an
>       "instralled programs" folder.  If I later reinstall my system,
>       depending on the program, I either fully install it anew, or just
>       restore the icons.
>    4. Make a backup of your system :-)
>    5. Start the eCS install and let it format the installation volume.
>    6. Apply any other software/system extensions you want
>    7. Reapply you desktop icons and settings as per above created object
>       package.
> 
> Note: to make my life easier whenever I want to reinstall my system 
> (whatever the reason may be), I have written an install document which I 
> can follow to the letter to get exactly the same system back.  Not that 
> I need this much; I always have a working system backup ready ;-)
> 
> I have attached my installation document so you can see what I mean 
> (probably only shows up in the mail I sent to your private account).

This gives NOT a clean migration. Even the install may fail!

eCS 1.1 comes with a good procedure to migrate the WARP4, MCP and eCS 
1.0 desktop. Look on eCS CD #2 for migrate.txt for the description and 
migrate.cmd for the procedure itself.

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76767 Hagenbach

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