In article <[email protected]>, Richard Torrens (lists) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now I need to put a !Boot somewhere. The instructions say you need to do > that - but not how! Have a look at http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/Rpcmudir.png as it may help a bit. This shows the contents of the directory on my Linux (Xubuntu) laptop where I keep rpcemu. Having extracted and compiled rpcemu it gives me a file 'rpcemu' along with other files and directories. You can put !Boot either into the hostfs directory or into the file 'hd4.hdf' which is an 'image' of an ADFS disc. > In the install instructions there is a good section on getting Rom images > - but getting a !Boot installed is just as important! No instructions! I found that on other pages. Afraid off-hand I now can't recall where. My memory is poor, so someone else may correct errors and omissions in the following... I'd agree that this situation can be very 'chicken and egg'. You need to get the standard program for installing the RO4 boot (from ROL, I think). You also need to get the self-extracting zip of sparkplug from David Pilling. Put them both into the hostfs using Linux. Start up rpcemu by executing the rpcemu file. When you get a RPC screen and desktop it will be bootless. But you can now find the things you put into the hostfs directory on your hostfs 'drive' on the icon bar. Filetype the self extracting sparkplug as basic. Run it and generate the app that can now be used to get other things from zips. IIRC the RO4 boot install comes as a zip. You can now use sparkplug to extract this. It can now be run and will install the !Boot. You will have two 'hard discs' on the rpcemu. One is from the h4d.hdf image file and be shown as ADFS hard discs '4'. The other is the contents of the hostfs directory. In principle you can install !Boot to either. You just need to treat the emulator as a real rpc which lacks any boot or detailed configure. So you also may need to tell it the config for which 'disc' and 'filing system' to boot from. Once that is done it should boot up OK. You can then import other software as zips. Drop them into hostfs using Linux. Then run rpcemu and find them on the hostfs 'hard disc'. You can then extract them and put the contents where you choose using sparkplug. > Am I unusual in wanting to do as much of this as possible from the Risc OS > computer over the network? Surely most people installing it will already > have a Risc OS 'puter and will be networked! I do. But it never occurred to me to try the install by 'remote control' from my Iyonix. It is simple enough to do on the linux box once you have twigged all the details. The problem - as you have found - is that the detail instructions are somewhat scatterred about! FWIW I also use ROX, so have written a simple ROX app that runs rpcemu from the 'icon bar' of ROX. I do this with most of the Linux software I use very often. Slainte, 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
