Re: eCS CAN be installed on floppyless notebooks.

Jeroen Besse wrote: 
The eCS Guy© wrote:

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

OK, the discussion has wandered away from the original subject line without it having been changed, but I was responding to Mike Ross's agreement with the claim that the need to enter a registration key makes it impossible to install eCS on a notebook without a floppy drive.

Perce 

<snipping some rambling about having to type in the key>

It would've been easier to save the key file to some media available during installation time, eg a floppy disk, an USB memory disk, a CD, or an existing partition (which was there, as he claimed he didn't overwrite his current OS/2 installation). Typing over the key is hardly ever needed. 

How many times am I going to have to repeat this?  I have no
floppy drive on my laptop.  I have no USB memory stick for my
laptop.  I couldn't burn the information to CD without an operating
system on the laptop.  I couldn't place the information on the
partiton without an operating system on the laptop.  I was stuck
inserting the registration code ten different times because I needed
to partition my drive.  I wasn't going to install eComstation on a
brand new 100GIG hard drive without partitioning it up and
cloning my OS/2 Warp 4.52 'just in case'.  I was very lucky to
have done that because once I saw and used eComstation I
went right back to my OS/2 Warp 4.52 operating system.

I'm not surprised that you can't fathom the problems that
come with being forced to use a 100plus digital key to run
a product that less than .0001% of the computer using public
uses.  It shows the full paranoia of Serenity and those who
try to restrict the use of eCS.

The registration code is not needed and is redundant.  It
hampers sales and drives future eComstation consumers
away from the product before they ever see it.

The eCS Guy©
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