[Discussion] Trying to install eCS 2.0 Silver

[D Burch]

Stratton,

Do you have ECS1.2? If so there was a diskette with the key file.

Don Burch

On 5/2/10 4:34 AM, 73357.3046 at compuserve.com wrote:
> Thanks everybody for the suggestions.
>
> Julian, Peter, Robert:
>
> Thanks for the information about the key file.  I do have a diskette 
> drive on the computer, so I don't anticipate any problem reading the file.
>
> But all this begs the question of what the file looks like.  I haven't 
> seen any description anywhere and as far as I know, I have no 
> examples.  Does it have to have a particular name?  Is it a text file 
> ?  If so, what does it look like?  Perhaps five lines laid out like 
> the registration entry screen?  Or maybe nine lines with a line for 
> each entry field?
>
> I suppose I could experiment a bit, but I thought I'd ask here first. 
>  Anyway I have no inkling whether it's some kind of encoded format.
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>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll give them a try when I get the time 
> to get back to trying the installation.
>
> Stratton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 73357.3046 <73357.3046 at compuserve.com>
> To: discussion <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Sent: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 12:42 pm
> Subject: [Discussion] Trying to install eCS 2.0 Silver
>
> I'm sure this must have been covered somewhere, but I have not been 
> able to find it.
>
> I am trying to install eCS 2.0 Silver (RC7).
>
> After booting from the CD, I accept almost all the defaults offered by 
> the installation program:  Easy installation, Panorama video, no ACPI, 
> etc.  As far as I can tell, the installer is doing a good job 
> identifying the hardware.  About the only change I make is to add a 
> serial port controller.  For sound, I pick the first item - Universal 
> driver.
>
> After entering the registration information (Is there any way to 
> generate the diskette that can be used to enter this information ? 
>  It's, of course, a bit of a nuisance to have to keep entering it each 
> time I try again to get the installation done.), the actual 
> installation starts with the blue progress bar running across the 
> bottom of the screen.
>
> It all seems to be going as expected.  However, when it gets to the 
> part shown as 'Merging additional driver selections ...', things go 
> awry.  The blue bar continues to move, but nothing seems to be 
> happening. I have let it run a few hours just in case it needed the 
> time, but it's pretty clear the system is stuck.  No keystrokes I can 
> think of accomplish anything.  Even Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect.  All I 
> seem to be able to do is hit the Off or Reset button.  
>
> Can anybody tell me what I can do to get beyond this point ?  If it 
> has been covered somewhere else, can someone point me to that ?
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Stratton McAllister
>
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