From: eguerrino@email.bony.com
Subject: 2.0 Migration from Extended Edition 1.3
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Date: 15 Apr 92 05:56:46 EST

I completed installation of OS/2 2.0, Extended Services 1.0, and LAN 
Requester 2.0 on my system yesterday. A preliminary check late in 
the day indicates everything that was working still is - the optical 
SCSI device is accessible, 3270 emulation (via the 3745 now) is 
available, and I was able to logon to our 1.3-based domain and 
access the available servers.
Some items of interest when "migrating" a 1.3 system-
 - the desktop tends to get cluttered with many more folders than if 
   you start off with a clean system. it is interesting to see the 
   once "hierarchical" structure of the 1.3 groups, that seemed so 
   orderly in a 1.3 environment, get layed out flat under 2.0. It 
   appears that significant reordering of the migrated folders is 
   needed to organize the desktop more efficiently after migrating.
 - you should have at least 26MB of available disk space before you 
   start the install, and this is cutting it fairly close, assuming 
   you install the "preconfigured" install, not the full install. 
   Release 2.0 will remove unneeded 1.3 components during install, 
   but I am not sure if it is removing everything, since it is 
   consuming so much more disk. Will check into it.
 - The default install does not install Courier fonts. You may want 
   to modify the Font install to include Courier; it does come in 
   handy at times when using the System Editor...
 - I encountered one problem during ES 1.0 install. After installing 
   both Communications Manager and Database Manager support, 
   having instructed the install program to use my existing 1.3 
   configuration file to configure the 2.0 system, I found that 
   although Database Manager was there, nothing for Communications 
   Manager was represented on the Desktop; but the install did go 
   through all of the diskettes. I had to redo the ES install 
   without using the migration feature. I suspect I answered one of 
   the prompts incorrectly during the install. The ES configuration 
   utility is not much different from the EE 1.3 configuration 
   utility and there is still the confusing prompts to select an 
   option and press Enter, then press F3 when done to install the 
   feature, etc.
 - the SWAP file, which tended to range between 3MB to 6MB under EE 
   1.3 after starting 3270, logging in to the network, loading 
   Notes and a few other tasks, has grown to a 8MB to 10MB range, 
   although performance does not seem to be significantly worse. 
   This is probably due to Release 2.0's real paging mechanism 
   instead of segment swapping; it is not significantly worse, but 
   it is slower...
 - The network folder that is installed is an interesting "object". 
   It shows you your connected servers automatically after login. 
   You can select these to see what resources are available from 
   each server. This is much easier to use than the "brain-dead", 
   full-screen, text-mode LAN Requester of LAN Server 1.3. It might 
   make it easier to use resources on a demand basis, like optical 
   drives, shared modems, etc., as opposed to assigning them within 
   Logon Details or through a "net use". I have not experimented 
   with it yet.

In short, the migration was not too painful. After having used 2.0 on my home
system for some time, and "adjusting" to the Workplace Shell (which I hated
at first, but now wonder how I managed without it), it will be good to have
one environment again on both systems... it was getting confusing using 
1.3 after spending so much time with a 2.0 system.
eric