On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:22:06PM +0100, Tom Larard wrote: > Hi, > > Well I pulled my old A5000 out of the attic, and pulled the rom images. > > Now I've got them loaded into arcem, and compiled the latest cvs with > hostfs support. (It wouldn't compile with the #include > <sys/syslimits.h> in hostfs.c, but will happily without it) but I've > no idea how to get any of my acorn files into it. > > I used dsktrans to get the file images off a couple of my old > floppies, but arcem won't mount the images. So I used the python > ADFS-libs to get the individual files off the disk images. > > How does one get arcem to mount the hostfs system? >
Ok, as long as you understand hostfs is very experimental currently, here's the instructions. I ought to cut and paste this and put it in CVS somewhere. 1) Edit the Makefile and make sure the variable HOSTFS_SUPPORT is set to yes (it should be on already). 2) Compile up arcem as normal. 3) Copy the file hostfs,ffa from support_modules/hostfs/ into extnrom/ 4) Make a directory in the root of the distro (same place as the extnrom directory) called 'hostfs' (case sensitive). 5) Run arcem, bring up a task window or from a shift-f12 command prompt type '*rommodules', the ArcEmHostFS module should appear in extension rom section at the bottom of the list. If it's not visible step 3 went wrong. 6) As we dont currently yet have a desktop filer module [1] to open the filer window type '*filer_opendir hostfs:$' into a task window of shift-f12 command prompt. Copying the files on your host OS into the hostfs directory should make them accessable in arcem. [1] I believe Ralph Corderoy is currently looking into this. > Alternatively, how can I get an adfs hard disk image that I can mount > from both Arcem and from linux? Then I could copy the files to that > and edit them, and copy them back off. > I'm not sure, but some combination of FS loopback devices (I believe that's how you can mount .iso images as virtual drives) and the Linux kernels ADFS support might work. If you get it to work, please let me know :) > [ The point of all this is that I have a file in acorn !draw format > (My familt tree back to 1720) that has a huge amount of text > information. Most drawfile converters won't convert text only paths. > So I'd like to use the 'Convert to path' option in draw this can then > be converted to some other format. ] > If the conversion is fairly simple, I or others from this list might be able to convert it for you? > On another note. It was an oddly nostalgic moment to see the old > RISCOS boot screen up after all these years. > If you compile up with Daniel Clarke's sound support it may even say 'foop' at you on startup in a very nostalgic way. :) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
