home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- >>>>> "Mat" == Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com> writes:
-
- >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com> writes:
- Gene> I downloaded the nihimage.hfv file and placed it in my
- Gene> /usr/local/lib/executor directory. Now what? I don't see
- Gene> it when I fire up executor. I must have to do something
- Gene> else, but I have no clue what it is. I have tried with and
- Gene> without the environment variable that points to the system
- Gene> folder in my home directory.
-
- Mat> You can say this in your .bashrc:
-
- Mat> export MacVolumes=/usr/local/lib/executor/nihimage.hfv
-
- Mat> This environment variable is a semicolon-separated list of
- Mat> hfv's (and devices, if you want). I use a similar line to
- Mat> let me use an hfv I keep in my Linux home directory.
-
- Actually, if the MacVolumes environment variable isn't altered, all
- that Gene needs to do is put nihimage.hfv in /usr/local/lib/executor
- and the right thing will happen automatically. An explanation
- follows.
-
- Under both DOS and Linux If you don't set the MacVolumes environment
- variable at all, it will default to "+/exsystem.hfv;+". The part
- before the semi-colon means that the first HFV file that will be
- opened is exsystem.hfv in the Executor Library Directory. The
- Executor Library Directory is /usr/local/lib/executor under UNIX and
- C:\EXECUTOR (or wherever you install Executor) under DOS. The "+"
- which follows the semi-colon then tells Executor that any HFV file
- with an extension of ".hfv" that is found in the Executor Library
- Directory should also be mounted as an HFV file. It's because of this
- additional "+" that Gene, and other E/L users, can just drop the .hfv
- file in /usr/local/lib/executor without modifying anything.
-
- On one of our Linux systems, we use the command
-
- export MacVolumes="+;/dev/sdb"
-
- to tell Executor that in addition to looking for .hfv files in
- /usr/local/lib/executor, our second SCSI drive should also be
- considered an HFV, so we can attach an external Mac formatted SCSI
- drive and use that too. Usually we hook up a 1 gig formatted Mac
- drive for testing purposes.
-
- Under DOS, we don't have to do anything special to see the SCSI drive,
- because E/D and E/L have slightly different rules about how they look
- for Mac formatted SCSI drives. In essense, E/D looks for you and E/L
- needs to be told.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-