[Discussion] eCS on Large Disk

[Ira N. Saxe]

>From: Carl Gehr <Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com>
>Date: 2008/04/03 Thu PM 08:57:15 CDT
>To: POSSI Discussion List <discussion at lists.possi.org>
>Subject: Re: [Discussion] eCS on Large Disk

>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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
>
Carl, my partition layout follows:
47 DELLUTILITY
47 Wasted Space
490527 Windows SP
2047 logical FAT Data
6000 logical eCS Data and Whatever (to be HPFS)
1325 logical eCS (to be HPFS)
7 BootManager

I don't see a difference that's causing my problems.  Any help will be appreciated.  Regards, Ira Saxe