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Looks like it's going to prove very elusive.
Think I better wait and try beta3 or LION maybe.

Greg

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I've had some more attempts at the ACPI installs using the /VW and /PIC options but just get a lot of SYS1719 errors and it eventually stalls.
I will see if I can get later drivers and try again if possible since I really do want this to work and get back to using OS/2 again and see what it can really do now.
Greg

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Pete
I will try that but will have to wait til next week when l'm out of hospital
Regards
Greg

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Pete,
I have been able to move further into the install by selecting Legacy Hardware, but then when Phase 1 is completed and the system reboots for the rest...
I get :-
BIOS boot screen
Boot menu from CD
White Bar eCS at top left of screen (approx 1-2secs)
Blank screen (2-3 secs)
System reboots again

I think I've tried just about all the driver combinations except the default (which also seems to cause the partition error messages) and this is the furthest I've got so far.
I have confined myself to the drivers for the 2 controllers that show up during install and kept them both the same.
I have been able to partition and format (JFS) the SSD each time without any errors.

Can you think of anything else that may help?

Regards
Greg

BTW BIOS Disk controller only has IDE option and disk is defintely set for MBR.

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Pete,
Did as you said and unfortunately no SSD  :(
Only the cdrom and RAMdisk show up - Disk2 (39MB ) is definitely the RAMdisk.
Does this mean no eCS for this machine now?

Greg

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I removed the partitions using gparted initally.
I have since run dfsee and ensured there were no partitions left and have then repartitioned into 2 primary partitions and then confirmed that with gparted also.
So - I now have the SSD with 2 partitions created by dfsee.
I downloaded the iso again and created a new cd, booted and set the parameters, got to "Checking disk integrity" again and up comes disk2 (39MB). I am certain that this is the RAMdisk (drive Z:) NOT the SSD (which showed it's correct size first time around when it initially appeared in this list).
This happens regardless of which CD I boot from so that would appear to discount it being a cdrom/download/burning error (although a checksum for the iso would make it certain).
It seems that the install is able to distinguish between the SSD and the RAMdisk correctly but I cannot proceed further due to the install process ensuring that it terminates here in these circumstances and only allows a shutdown/reboot.
As a result of this I cannot get to any logfiles that may be produced either.


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I have been attempting to install eCS2.2b2 on an ASUS EEE 1201N netbook with 4GB RAM and a 240GB SSD.
I have minimal changes for the setup - additional driver messages, boot from usb cdrom.
The install proceeds OK until the Disk Integrity Check (DIC) process.
I have removed all partitions on the SSD.
1st attempt the DIC showed both Disk2 and Disk3 (SSD) with partition errors so I requested they be fixed.
During the subsequent install attempts Disk2 (39MB) appears but not the SSD and this disk (I think it is the RAMdisk created during the install by startup.cmd to house the boot floppy images and pmshell.exe) persists to show partition table missing and I can't proceed beyond this point.
As a result I cannot partition the disk nor install eCS or Windows (I want a multi-boot system if possible).

Is there anyone who can help?
Greg

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