singlewc{at}eudoramail.com wrote:
>>after a long period of just running my system I have decided to have a
>>major update and purchased eCS 1.1 german.
> 
> 
> Would you mind sharing what it was that made you decide to upgrade? By
> that I mean, did you find that there was something your current system
> cannot do, that eCS gives you, or did you just figure you wanted to go and
> get  the newer stuff? :-)
> 
> The reason I ask is because I am pretty much where you are now, and every
> time I think I might go ahead and upgrade, I realize its costly, will
> pretty much wipe out a system that I have had running for over six years,
> and, for me, there is nothing in eCS that I need, so I always back away. 
> 
> I bought eCS 1.0 back when it first appeared, and never used it because I
> didn't care for the LVM issues, and all the install problems that were
> bandied about, so I just put the CD away. Maybe one day........
> 
> Just curious to hear from someone who it upgrading, and would like to read
> how it goes.
> 
> A more general question for eCS users is, what happens if I install eCS,
> and then run the robosave utility to restore one of my old system backups.
> I would think it should work, as its also OS/2. Just wondering. 

You may live with eCS 1.0, right. But on other hand 1.1 will give you 
a more extended desktop, a clean install, more functionality (some of 
the applications on eCS CD #2 will only work if they find eCS 1.1 
instead of 1.0 because they are checking the 1.1 key.

Robosave will NOT work because the desktop is significally changed, so 
most of the system objects on the desktop are either gone (replaced 
with others) or on other places.

Further maintenance will fail too because eCSMT does different actions 
on eCS 1.0 and eCS 1.1. eCSMT is a key application to make maintenance 
simple.

By that: DON'T install eCSMT from eCS CD#2! Download the current 
version from the download section of ecomstation.com. The version on 
CD is unable to update itself! So installing it is superflous! Install 
from server:
1. install warpin 1.0.1 from CD#2 (this is the prerequisite for 
ecsmt!) into any place you like to have it running.
2. install it again into the same place to overcome a bug in the 
installer (double install is all to do here)
3. download the newest version of ecsmt from ecomstation.com into
    an empty folder of your choice (or the download folder of
    a prior version)
4. fire up ecsmt.exe (it uses warpin to install itself)
5. start it from the desktop object the installer generates
6. change the pathes (download and fixpack to the ones of your choice)
    that means at least: change the download path to a location
    that is NOT the system drive as this will save you
    to download anything again whenever you installs the system again
7. open the download window (german: status des Herunterladens)
    and insert your userid and password for http://www.ecomstation.com
8. when it accepts it then press the button that says
    request the FTP account.
    This will determine your FTP userid and password from the server
    magically. As eCSMT saves both you can close this window now.
    It will be reopen every time you requests a download.
9. Now you can start to download all fixes and drivers you likes.
    All of them will be stored in the download directory for further
    use.
10. let it fix or replace/install drivers of your choice.
    It is possible to fix or replace/install multiple drivers/fixes
    until it requires a reboot. Whenever it requires a reboot
    the reboot should be done immediately because there are some
    actions left that can only be done during the next boot.



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76767 Hagenbach

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