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OS/2 - Technical => Setup & Installation => Topic started by: Dennis on 2008.07.29, 16:58:22

Title: Dual Boot
Post by: Dennis on 2008.07.29, 16:58:22
Now that I have shut down my business, I only need 1 computer in my office. The fastest system I have currently is running XP. I want to put ECS on the physical D drive so I can use either a good OS or something called an OS...
Because I need windoze for financial software (Quicken, Turbotax) I won't be able to completely get rid of XP (unfortunately).
How do I install ECS and move my OS/2 apps to the XP computer for a dual boot situation?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dennis
Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: Pete on 2008.07.30, 03:07:27
Hi Dennis

Several things that you do not mention or are not clear...

Is "the physical D drive" a 2nd drive in the system or a 2nd partition on the 1st drive? Also: Is there anything already on D:?

What system is involved and which version of eCS? - eCS prior to 1.2R does not install on 64bit cpu based systems.


I seem to recall that the term "Dual Boot" applied to the fact that it was possible to boot DOS from the Warp3 Desktop (not necessary to reboot system) and think that you actually mean "Multi Boot" - a choice of operating systems to use at computer power on/reboot time - rather than "Dual Boot".


When installing eCS you will need to install Boot Manager when running LVM to define Volumes. You will need to add all bootable partitions/volumes to the Boot Manager Menu - select 1 as the Default - so that when you start the system you get to choose what to boot - or accept the Default.


Regards

Pete
Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: Dennis on 2008.07.30, 03:41:30
Hi, Pete!
D is an empty physical drive.
Computer I want to put Ecs on is windoze XP Home. I will use ECS 1.2R.
Multi-boot is right. I want a choice.
How do I get the system to install ECS on D? Do I boot from CD?

Dennis

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: Radek on 2008.07.30, 09:58:27
OS/2 boot drive can be D: or anything else. You can install OS/2 on a logical partition. No problems here. Start installation from your CD, install Boot Manager, create a partition for OS/2 (for example, D: ) add the partition along with the winblows partition to the boot manager menu and so on. I recommend creating a 2 GB HPFS "system" partition, where you will have only the opeating system, and adding JFS "data" partition(s) later, where you will have your apps and data.
You can experience lot of "fun" with the existing winblows on your machine. At any rate, archive critical data from your machine first. There is a lot of potential problems on your way :D thus try first and ask then :D It isn't possible to enumerate all problems in the advance.
Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: Dennis on 2008.08.11, 15:12:36
Thanks for the info, guys! Due to the warning of possible complications installing dual/multi boot, I am thinking of networking the 2 computers instead. Would that be a safer way to go? I think I put an ethernet card in the OS/2 system--Warp 4, FP-13--but am not sure.
If networking the 2 would be safer than dual/multi-boot, How do I go about it.
   Will XP recognize the network without special software?
   Will Warp 4 recognize the network without any additional software?
   Should I install eCS on the Warp 4 system to better handle the network?
   Do I need any software? If so, what?
   Do I need anything other than a cable between my ethernet router and the ethernet card in the other                 system? 
   Would the network come up when I turn on the systems? Or would I have to do some manipulating every time I turn on the computers?
   The way I visualize it, the computers would be on a single monitor with the 2 boxes next to each other on the floor. Would that be a problem?  Would there be any difference in connections to just use 1 monitor?
   The XP system is faster than the Warp 4 system. Will that cause problems?

Thanks for all the help so far. You're a great group.

Dennis
Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: ivan on 2008.08.11, 16:20:21
Hi Dennis

There should be no problem with ecs if you are using a second physical disk, just boot from the cd, make sure you install boot manager on the second disk, partition it as you like (up to 2 Gb for system, the remainder can be as large as you like).
There should be others here that can tell you the exact procedure, I'm not sure as I only have os/2 and not ecs, but on one of my computers I have WSEB, OS/2 Warp4, Open SUSE 11 and Open DOS all bootable via boot manager.  I also have win2k in virtualpc and win xp in virtualbox, the latter two so I can help clients with their problems.

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: ModZilla on 2008.09.01, 05:46:18
I would not recommend Vista for anything, esp. networking, doing so to OS/2 no way, but w/ eCS Version 2 networked to hastalaVista would be fine but going network means a KVM box if you plan on having only one monitor as you mentioned in your query, this gets more complicated with more cables, hardware and of course is not so greenie freindly, if you are conservative in your SOHO's footprint and all around stuff managment; going back to dual booting is great/better from a management standpoint, especaily if you are using clean multiple physical drives with proper start/end points defined and drive Security ID's for each in place. Think of all the money you will save going "virtual" 8)
Title: Re: Dual Boot eCS and ROS?
Post by: BigWarpGuy on 2008.09.01, 16:42:31
Can one dual boot eComStation and ReactOS?  ??? http://www.reactos.org (http://www.reactos.org) ROS is still in development but seems to be able to run Win programs (many but not all). I want to try ROS but I do not want to give up eCS.  8)
Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.09.01, 17:31:49
I've run ReactOS in VirtualBox under OS/2 ;)

It's decent, but it's still a good deal of fail at this point, much like the Linux it was derived from. Eventually it should turn into something really promising (much like HaikuOS will), but at this stage I really can not recommend trying it in hardware, only virtualized.