[Virtualacorn-list] Second virtual Hard drive

Dave Symes dave at triffid.co.uk
Tue Apr 10 18:58:17 BST 2012


In article <A74AA0441936474DBA052B6A92D86B45 at philipsdesktop>,
   T.O.M.S. <toms at ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
Dave Wrote...
> Hello folks

> Can I barge in as Dave Symes's post at 14:49 on 10 April gives a clue 
> as to the confusion:

> > Boot-Configure-Discs and set hardDisc to an extra one, and
> > yes up pops a new Hardisc icon of 50 Mbytes. Name that as
> > HD5 and Bob's me wotsit...

> Correct - but that is not a *HostFS* partition. It's a 'special' (to 
> VirtualRPC) *IDE* partition, specifically for use on those very rare 
> occasions when a RISC OS application will not run under HostFS - but 
> will under IDE. Sibelius comes to mind.

Earlier today, once the lightbulb went on (Ping) I realised my booboo,
removed the config HD5 and created one in the VRPC install dir, so all is
now sorted.

Thanks folks
Dave

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Dave Triffid




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