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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.