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:\
> 
> 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
> 


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