Heya,
I know this is not really an "eCS installation issue", however I begin to feel desperate about my failing attempts to get this to run. My corporate machine is an HP laptop with 3Gig of RAM and a DualCore something that has hardware virtualization support. The OS is XP SP2 (32-bit)
What I'm trying to do is getting eCS 2.0 RC6 to work. Previous versions are struck by the resource.sys error in VMs, older releases (OS/2 Warp 4... ecs.1) can't get across IDE and/or floppy driver load in the initial boot phase of the setup. Is there anyone here who can tell me
- which options he/she chose during setup (ACPI, dani, usb...)
- what options were selected in VirtualBox (h/w virt., acpi, io apic, ...?)
- which VB version was used
Needless to say... I gave a try to Microsofts "VirtualPC" and guess what? ecs1 ran out of the box. Crap. OK, it's dead slow but it runs. Ain't that a shame?

OTOH, eCS doesn't even install - but hey, it doesn't do it on VB either. I saw messages floating around randomly of people teling that they got eCS to work in VB, even Warp4.5... how the heck did they do it? Am I missing something? And why can't people explain what they did with focusing of the detailed approach and the options chosen during setup? Am I too unpatient and everything works, only you have to go for lunch in order to allow it to initialize?
The sad thing about it is that I have _NO_ spare time to work on/in/with eCS when I'm home. I don't like carrying 2 laptops with me and my company does not allow me dual-boot setups on "their" assets (which I can absolutely understand BTW). So the virtual machine is the only solution I have to do at least little things with eCS (without having to take a leave day).
Thanks for any hints.
In case I should ever be able to get it to work, I'll create a detailed how-to - that'll learn these punks on how to share information in a correct manner. Heck.

Cheers,
Thomas