Installation guide

Q: At the end of phase 1 of the installation, a command window came up with
endless rolls of command prompts. For
example:[A:\][A:\][A:\][A:\][A:\][A:\] I can not kill it. What do I
do?
A: This is a result of some combinations of video adapter and the mouse
driver which surface under certain conditions when booted from the CD. If
the installer displayed a screen indicating "eCS installation completed.", try
rebooting the machine. If the machine boots from the target volume cleanly
and continues the installation, there is nothing to worry about.
If, however, it fails to boot, the last part of phase 1 did not get completed.
Boot from the CD again, wait for the desktop to come up, start a full screen
command session. At the command line, issue the command:
s:\ecs\instexit.cmd t: s: PHASE3
where s: is your CD-ROM drive letter, and t: is the target drive letter. When
finished, reboot and to continue the installation
Q: My machine locked up during installation how can I restart the
installation?
A: If the machine locked up after the first reboot you should bring up
WiseMachine from your desktop, go to Utility -> Selective Install
-> eCS Installation - phase 2. It will ask you for the eCS CD#1
(since some files will have to be copied to the harddrive), and then you can
continue with the installation process. If the machine locked up after the
second reboot you should select phase 3 from the WiseMachine menu to
restart the installation
Q: During phase 2, I invoked the Selective Install for Networking and the
main window of the Network installer popped up. Before I finish, I get a
messagebox that asked me if I cancelled the Networking Installer. What's
going on?
A: We are seeing this on some machines. When that happens do you, ignore
the message box and leave it open while continuing with Selective Install for
Networking. If the message box remains after Selective Install for Networking
has closed you can dismiss it by answering "No".
Q: I would like to invoke some commandline commands from the CD booted
eComStation desktop. Selecting the Full Screen Command Prompt doesn't
do anything.
A: The command prompt opens in the background. Please use the
CTRL+ESC keys and select it from the window list.
Q: My system hangs or freezes when during startup, before I get the
Presentation Manager.
A: If the boot process hangs during boot you can disable hardware detection.
Press Alt+F1 before the logo and select disable Hardware
detection.
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Q: After the first reboot I can not see anything on my screen and I am using a
SiS videochipset
A: Your video-chipset is not supported properly by the SDD videodriver.
Please press ALT+F1 before the logo appears and select F3 - reset
primary video to generic default display and reboot.
Q: LVM reports no recognizable filesystems and no freespace.
A: Currently FAT32, NTFS, EXT2 and other filesystems will not be
recognized by the eCS. Please use other disk tools to create space for eCS
bootmanager and boot partition, then let LVM create the eCS partitions and
BootManager during installation. After using LVM, do NOT use any other
FDISK programs.
Q: When trying to run the installer for networking my computer locks up /
crashes.
A: This is being caused by the hardware detection. Not all computers can
handle the low level hardware probing that takes place in this process, so
you should disable hardware detection and run the installer again.
You can disable hardware detection by renaming the file
\IBMINST\CLBSNIFF.EXE on your bootdrive. You can then manually select
your network adapter from the presented list. Or add the following line to your
config.sys to disable the sniffer: SET MPTS_SNIFF=/NS
INSTALLATION - SCSI
Q: I have an Adaptec SCSI Adapter and SCSI CD-ROM and I couldn't get it
to boot the eCS bootable CD. A typical message is for this problem is
-- loading please wait ......
A: Check the following to settings:
1. In the Adaptec BIOS, for the cdrom device set disconnect "NO"
2. Also some cdroms will not work properly in sync mode, try turning off
initiate sync negotiation in the BIOS.
Q: When booting from the CD I get the following message:
eCS in unable to operate your hard disk or diskette
drive.
The system is stopped.
A: Is your cd-rom connected to a SCSI disk controller?
eCS supports more SCSI disk controllers than most other OSes. Due to the
large number of drivers there is a high possibility for a conflict between
drivers. If you have a SCSI controller you have to use the advanced pre-boot
menu (select boot option 2) and specify which SCSI driver you wish eCS to
use. See the readme ReadME-BootMenu.TXT for more info. Also Appendix
D lists all supported SCSI host adapters.
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