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ecs2.2 beta refresh

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Martin Iturbide:

--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on December 15, 2013, 04:49:08 pm ---and disk geometry problems are resolved.

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Does this mean that Beta 2 fixes the limitation of the "disk geometry problems" which the only workaround was to erase all the Hard disk partition and re-create them with eComStation?

That will be so cool for dual boot machines.

eirik:
Dear Martin and others wondering on this,

(1) Even under the old boot manager it was possible to keep the Win partition (but the safety/utilities partition had to go).  Just shrink the win partion using LVM (see my December 2010 installation remarks for the Lenovo T410 on eComStation.ru: http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=item&id=1976 ).

(2) Even better - since the 1.03 release of the AirBot boot manager one is even able to keep the safety/utilities partition.  Again, use LVM to size partitions and mark, and make an installable partition where eCS is put.  Further details: see my Aug. 2011 installation remarks for eCS 2.1 on a Lenovo T410 on eComStation.ru: http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=item&id=2046 .

Please note that LVM and the both the old boot manager or AirBot v1.03 or later make the Win boot manager redundant. 

Also, thanks to the AirBot developer M. Kiewitz, past eCS developers and those now working on eCS 2.2 for making it possible to have eCS on modern hardware (too few thanks are given!). 

Finally - I now even have WiFi on my T410 with a little work-around (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3531/match= )

Eirik

Neil Waldhauer:
The beta fixes my installation on Lenovo Thinkpad X60, which has normal issues of an aging laptop. Before eWPS would crash, both during installation and during normal boot. I'm guessing the problem was the battery widget, which still gives wrong information, but no longer crashes.

I'm interested in the posts on newer laptops. It appears that Thinkpads in the xy10 series work, but in the xy30 have the memory hole. I have gotten my W500 WiFi to work, but I'm interested in how that would be on a newer laptop. I would like to see a reasonable function on a laptop currently for sale. The xy40 series is current.

Chenbiao:
Quite impressive.

I tried with a Dell Latitude E6420 and the installation was very smooth. ACPI runs with 4-cores i5 cpu, although the sound card was not recognized during the installation config but I forced to install the uniaud and after reboot it works fine. The network card works fine but the wifi can't be recognized. A pity is the touch pad doesn't work. Only possible to use external usb mouse.

Most important is I installed the eCS to a eSata SSD, it's just like a usb disk but can directly plug in the eSATA port. For me it means I'll never be bothered with the dual system installation on one HD anymore, just plug the SSD and start the computer with boot selection then I can use eCS without influence to the internal XP. Rrealy cool!

Joop:

--- Quote from: CHEN, Biao on December 16, 2013, 10:51:34 pm --- A pity is the touch pad doesn't work. Only possible to use external usb mouse.

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Its not written with that much words, but you could download the Wacom Bamboo driver with http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl/os2ecs/download/Wacom_Bamboo00.zip .  In the manual are a few hints what to do with a new not automatic recognized system. You could try to do just that, may be it works.

Regards,
Joop

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