In article <[email protected]>, Bob Latham <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, Jim Lesurf > <[email protected]> wrote:
BTW Bob, note that you may not need a very large 'adfs' (i.e. hd4.hdf file). You should be able to put most apps and files onto hostfs (which looks like a HD to RPCEmu) and they work there. You can also boot from that. However it may be simplest/safest to have !Boot on the 'adfs4' drive. And some apps may not work correctly with hostfs if they use some 'clever' aspects of the normal RO filing/filer systems and find a bug. So I keep !Boot on the 'adfs' disc, but have other things on hostfs. This means I don't need to preallocate a lot of space to an image file for adfs4. > > The best way to deal with filetypes for any transferred RO files is to > > put them into a zip at source using something like sparkfs. Put the > > zip into the 'hostfs' directory (if that is what it is called on the > > XP version). Then when RPCEmu runs you can find them as zips on your > > emulated RPC in the host 'disc'. > OK, I think. But I have no !Boot on the hd4. How on earth do I get it > there? It could be that I'm really stupid but the manual to me has > nothing to say on this. Try either http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/hdboot.zip On Linux you can put that into the RPCEmu directory and use 'unzip hdboot.zip'. It then gives you a small hd4 file with the boot sequence. Or http://support.riscos.com/Support/Releases/RO4install.zip Then put RO4install.zip into histfs as RO4install,ddc (note the comma and ddc, they give it a filetype when seen by RPCEmu). See below for how to then install. Dunno if you need to do this differently for Windows. IIRC I think I used the RO4install.zip method. > > There is a self-extracting program for getting them out of a zip. Use > > that to transfer sparkfs asap and that'll make life easier from then > > on. > Where can I find this self extracting item? Not seen any mention of this > anywhere else. http://www.davidpilling.net/splug.bas Note this is a BBC BASIC file. When fetching or downloading take care if using a browser that the process doesn't fiddle with the content. If you have 'wget' or similar use that to download to a file. Change the name to splug,ffb (comma and filetype again). Then put it in the hostfs directory. The start RPCEmu and run it as a BBC BASIC program with RPCEmu. It should then give you a copy of sparkplug on you hostfs drive. Again a health warning. I'm basing this on what I recall of Linux installing. So I can't say if installing now on Windows will all be as I describe. The above should give you some lines of attack, though. Note that as also warned you may also have to issue commands like *configure filesystem ADFS *configure drive 4 and use opt 4,<n> ( I can never remember if it is opt 4,2 or 4,3!) etc just like on a real RPC if you wish to boot from adfs4. > I must be missing some reading somewhere as these very basic essential > points don't appear to be answered in any of the things I've read. I'm afraid that the documentation may be a little disorganised overall, and scattered in various places. It has been written at various times and during the time the emulator have developed. As a result the instructions have also 'evolved'. Cheers, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
