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eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD English first impressions
Alex Taylor:
--- Quote from: ivan on March 04, 2013, 02:07:57 pm ---My Asus M4A78LT-M boots to a desktop, the Intel Pro/1000 nic is seen and used and I can get to the internet BUT there is no way that I can do anything with the drives on the machine - every time I try to open a drive it gives a windows like message that the drive isn't formatted (they are HPFS and JFS). As a demonstration that is useless.
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Please remember this product is a demo CD - it is not a 'live' CD in the usual sense. Certain features are disabled to ensure that people cannot use the CD as a substitute OS. In some cases, IBM specifically required that we disable these features for the free demo.
Access to OS/2 native fs (HPFS and JFS) drives is intentionally disabled. Printing is also disabled, as is SMB (Peer and Samba) support.
wsgibson:
eComStation 2.2 works fine on my ThinkPad T23. Probably no surprise there. My Parallels instance works (using eComStation 1.2 VM configuration) but it seems slower and prone to crash where my ThinkPad does not suffer from this. The eCS 1.2 Demo did the same thing in my Parallels instance only it did not seem to do so as much. I would have to say that it seems that Firefox is the reason for the crashes.
One thing with the 2.2 demo CD is that I am unable to download files using Firefox. I always receive a "Z:\var\temp\#### could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred." This happens no matter how I configure Firefox to save files.
Things are looking nice though.
Scott
ivan:
--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on March 11, 2013, 04:26:05 am ---Please remember this product is a demo CD - it is not a 'live' CD in the usual sense. Certain features are disabled to ensure that people cannot use the CD as a substitute OS. In some cases, IBM specifically required that we disable these features for the free demo.
Access to OS/2 native fs (HPFS and JFS) drives is intentionally disabled. Printing is also disabled, as is SMB (Peer and Samba) support.
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So it is not really a demo that anyone can use to show how it will work because it doesn't.
I was considering using it to show some of my clients how they could upgrade but it can't even be used for that.
Also it would have been nice if those limitations were spelled out at the beginning - preferably on the download site but at least in readme on the CD.
I have to admit it is a good beta test to see if it works with some hardware but even to that end it lacks the reporting facility to make that effective.
Sorry to sound so negative but it was a real disappointment after all we have been told to expect.
warp:
I tried the eCS 2.2 beta Demo cd on the desktop pc with the ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX mainboard.
The boot process goes ahead for a while, then I got the messages:
Processors Initialized: 1
OS2AHCI driver version 1.25
Insert eCS Demo Cd and press any key. If the CD is already inserted, try modifying the sotrage driver settings in the CD boot menu.
Perhaps there are some settings on the ACPI and on the AHCI driver which don't allow the boot process.
guzzi:
I have a pc with ide cd-rom and sata drives. It stops the boot the same way unless I switch ahci and ide (dani) driver order in the pre-boot menu storage settings.
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