[Discussion] eCS on Large Disk

[Carl Gehr]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:14:23 -0500 (CDT), Ira N. Saxe wrote:

>My new Dell PC has a 500 GB disk drive.  When I tried to install eCS on a 1.5 GB partition F:, the system booted from the eCS installation CD 1 and the said: "Insert eComStation Installation CD-ROM and press any key."  Since that CD 1 is the Installation CD-ROM, the message doesn't make sense, and each key press resulted in the same message.
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>When I previously tried to install OS/2, a message said that the installation had sensed an over 8 GB disk, and quit with that message.
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>Does anyone know whether eCS also has that 8 GB disk limit, or know of any reason for the above symptoms.  If there is an 8 GB limit, is there a fix for that problem.  Regards, Ira Saxe

I don't know why you should be having a problem with drive size.

What File System do you have on the target install drive?

I have eCS 2.0 RC2 installed into a 10GB HBFS logical partition
that is on a 100GB HD.  The HD is set up as:

Primary:
C: 30GB WinXP [TPad distribution squeezed from full 100GB]

Expanded with logicals:
C: 10GB eCS 1.2R
D: thru G:  . . . various eCS logicals
O: 10GB eCS 2.0 RC2
Freespace for remainder of drive.

Primary:
BootManager

Primary:
TPad recovery