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Has anyone tried eComStation ( http://www.ecomstation.com ) on a Thinkpad? Which model of Thinkpad did you install it on? Were there any problems?

I am trying to install eCS onto a Thinkpad 600 once I have replaced the hard drive (one on order). I tried to install it on a Thinkpad 760EL but it did not work out (could not boot from the cd and it seems to have problems with the external diskette drive; I might try to find an external cd drive that works with the 760EL and use an internel diskette drive to see if that works ).

I'm running eCS 1.2 on a T40. Installed without any problems.

eCS 1.2 running on TP-R51. No problems

I have installed eCS 1.0 and 1.1 on a couple of 600 and there has never been a prolem.
Just boot from the eCS CD#1.

AIf you have eCS 1.1 you can even choose to have a TP600 setup installed from the meny (even in "easy installation"-mode).

BigWarpGuy wrote:Has anyone tried eComStation ( http://www.ecomstation.com ) on a Thinkpad? Which model of Thinkpad did you install it on? Were there any problems?

I am trying to install eCS onto a Thinkpad 600 once I have replaced the hard drive (one on order). I tried to install it on a Thinkpad 760EL but it did not work out (could not boot from the cd and it seems to have problems with the external diskette drive; I might try to find an external cd drive that works with the 760EL and use an internel diskette drive to see if that works ).

I've never installed eCS 1.1 but I put eCS1.2 on a TP 385XD along with W98 and Boot Manager. I have now "graduated" to a T23 with eCS 1.2 and w2k. The later is used very little.

I have been to try a Win98 boot disk and the fdisk program on it. I will be trying that and returning with the results.

I created a Win98 boot disk with my Dad comptuer (it has Win98). It would not boot to Win98. I tried two different dieskette drives and tried both with an external drive holder for the 600. It would not boot. I will give up trying. I will use the hard drive in a Mini-Itx project ( http://tomleem.homestead.com/myminiitxprojects.html ; perhaps in the OS/2 Warp box or the Jupiter/2 toy or the TI-99/4A shell [the second is a very small space to put a hard drive and cdrom drive]).

I have ordered a refurbished Thinkpad T21 (IIRC). It was $400.00 at http://www.shoppersadvantage.com ). I upgraded it to 256 meg ram. It comes with Win98 but I will install eComStation onto it. I will return with the results.

http://www.shoppersadvantage.com/SHP/sc ... 3c0ced30ad

The results of pressing alt-f2 at bootup is 'cdfs.ifs \ibmcdrom.dmd a:\hpfs.ifs\locatecd.sys' . This shows when it stops installing eCS 1.1.