Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Hi Christer, some of this is really off topic for this group, see below
> 
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Why She havent't upgraded SMpMW yet it's because this ole box only have
>> 640Mib of memory, but after the transfer to the new box with a new and
>> healthy profiel, then it's time to upgrade to SM 2.1 first and then to
>> the latest SM version - the new box have 8Gib of memory (and yes, She
>> knows that WSeB and various eCs'es can't handle more than 4Gib, but a
>> guy in an eCs newsgroup hade hacked the kernel so that data can be
>> placed above the 4Gib limit - good for placing tempoary in the x:\tmp
>> and x:\temp dirs.
>>
> 
> ArcaOS comes with a similar utility to allow using memory above 4 GiB 
> (actually closer to 3.5GiB) as a ram disk.
> 
> [...]
>>>>
>>>> This may be a bit offtopic, but have somebody in this ng have any
>>>> experience using File and print service in eCs? She plans to install 
>>>> the
>>>> ecs22_en_cd1_smp_betaII.zip on the new box which comes with both the
>>>> Air-boot and the PEER server that's is running here in eCs 1.2. So what
>>>> steps must be taken so that She can transfer all partitions to the
>>>> new box?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've always just moved my hard drives to new boxes and used xcopy to
>>> move partitions to new hard drives (after partitioning).
>>> ArcaOS has been released as well if you want something more up to date
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> And just HOW do you that XCOPY if the driveletters are the same on your
>> new box and the old box? That method of moving your partitions, how does
>> the XCOPY statement look when you XCOPY all your partitions to the new
>> box over the network? Does She have to install for instance
>> ecs22_en_cd1_smp_betaII.zip on the box and creating the partitions from
>> there? Or does it suffice that the new box be defined with a different
>> name in the router/gatewap than the name the current box have in the
>> router/gateway?
>>
> 
> As Pete said, it is fairly easy with LVM and being able to assign drive 
> letters. Previously I used to have to plan my partitions carefully, plug 
> in the new drive as drive #2, do the copying, and then switch the drives 
> boot order.
> The correct xcopy command to copy x: to y: is xcopy /h /o /t /s /e /r /v 
> x:\* y:\
> 

Ok, but as the old and the new box is connected to the same router, the 
old one having the name 'Sorileasrv' and the new is 'Sorileacli', should 
not the XCOPY  look like this? XCOPY /h /o /t /s /e /r /v 
\Sorileasrv\c:*.* \Sorileacli\c: ?

> Can I suggest that you post your questions to usenet, newsgroups such as 
> comp.os.os2.apps, comp.os.os2.ecs and comp.os.os2.misc are a good start.
> If you need an account, there's a few free ones out there. I had good 
> luck with aioe, news://nntp.aioe.org
> Dave
> 

The trouble is that this profile is faulty so She can't access the 
ecomstation ng's, only this newsgroup.


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