Christoph Seelhorst schreef:

>I checked config.sys and found out the eCS is using a CDROM driver
located in ecs\boot.
>Have not understood why. 
>
Neither do I.

> I changed the respective lines in config.sys and now use the CDROM driver
>which came with UDF 2.15.  It is located in os2\boot.
>
>  
>
These not announced and not warned for changes came with eCS 1.2 specificly.

>Any reasons why eCS made this special boot directory.  BTW: some of
eCS's choices are not really
>obvious to me :)
>
>  
>
There is worse. Meanwhile I've discovered why all these migrations went 
south.

The desktop (Arbeidsoberfläche) directory has been moved to a directory 
\home\default\desktop.  That's the reason why my (as probably on all 
other migrated systems having troubles) desktop didn't come up at the 
end of phase 3. On my system there was (fase 3) a complaint about not 
finding the desktop in the ini files, on other systems there was an 
empty desktop etc, etc ... . Frankly, I'm amazed the migration seemed to 
work on some systems.
Also, anyone having used desktop.cmd

http://www.taartenbakkerij.com/bestanden/deskid.cmd

in the past and/or the Unimaint counterpart is bound to have failed the 
migration, as the desktop then is pretty much hardcoded to the root of 
the boot.

On top of that, due to the change of the desktop's location, tools like 
Unimaint can't work properly anymore (as they look for and act as the 
desktop directory is in the root of the boot). And as Unimaint is about 
the only commercial tool we have, this move sounds to me as pretty a 
disastrous one.
And even more worse, at install there isn't even an option available  to 
keep the desktop at his normal location: the option "Default 
directories" can't be unchecked, so you are stuck with these because Big 
Brother has decided you'll be stuck with them.
You probably can get away with it by going at the end of phase 2 to the 
system management and moving in the drives folder the desktop from 
\home\default to the root. I'm not sure, coz after more or less 20 
reinstalls of eCS1.2 I have had it.

Anyway, as this is a major alteration of the defaults with huge 
consequences, there should have been a warning at least, and an option 
to keep the defaults as they are.

The part I don't understand at all is: as eCS 1.2 is on the market for 
over 1.5 years now,  how can it be I'm the first  one to point to this 
problem? There have been plenty of reports about failed migrations, 
wasn't it?

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




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