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Installation and Use of the Universal Disc Structure
----------------------------------------------------
Please read and understand the LICENCE document in this directory before
proceeding.
This disc image is intended for use on a locally-booting system running RISC
OS >=3.10. It is not suitable for use in booting discless RISC OS clients or
NCs over a network connection.
You will need approximately 42Mb of free space on your hard drive to perform
the extraction and installation process as detailed below.
This disc image is derived from the image currently installed on J233 Risc
PCs at manufacture time; various materials have been removed from the J233
image to create this build, however placeholder directories have been added
where appropriate.
Installation
------------
The following steps constitute a cast-iron method of installing the
structure, which should work on just about any RISC OS >=3.1 system with
enough spare hard disc capacity. Other methods of installation exist for
users who don't mind moving subhierarchies around piecemeal according to the
layout of their individual hard discs.
Make a new directory in the root of your hard disc; copy the BOOT/ARC archive
from the CD into it.
Extract the contents of BOOT/ARC archive now resident on your hard disc into
this new directory, using !SparkFS (if you have it), or !SparkPlug.
If you do not have a copy of !SparkPlug, examine either ftp.acorn.co.uk or
the copy of it elsewhere on this CD; you should find a BASIC program called
dearchiv.bas (or similar) inside the riscos/releases directory. *settype this
program to type BASIC if it does not have a BASIC icon associated with it
already in your filer window, and run it. This BASIC program will proceed to
extract a copy of !SparkPlug into your currently selected directory.
Make another new directory on your hard disc. Move everything from the root
directory of your hard disc, other than the directory which now contains the
new structure, into it.
Reboot.
You should now find yourself running the new !Boot; your machine will start
up as though it is an out-of-the-box J233.
Reconfigure your system using the !Configure application built into !Boot;
double-click on !Boot to run it. Further configuration documentation can be
found in the Manuals directory.
You will subsequently need to move the applications you use at startup time
into the new !Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk / !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks
directories, and / or edit your !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks.!Boot file
accordingly.
Copyright (c) Acorn Computers Ltd 1998.