[Virtualacorn-list] Moving VA

Peter Young pnyoung at ormail.co.uk
Wed Apr 23 10:56:35 BST 2014


On 22 Apr 2014  "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:


> On Tue Apr 22 18:14:12 BST 2014, Peter Young pnyoung at ormail.co.uk
> said:

>>More thoughts from me. I'd like to move my HardDisc4 folder for
>> VRPC, but not necessarily move the VRPC installation entirely.

>> I've started by copying the whole of the HardDisc4 f-older to a
>> place outside Program Files. What I think I need to do is to go
>> to Tools Options on the top bar of the RISC OS window, and
>> add a mount pointing to my new HardDisc4 location, and to
>> set Bootable: Yes, No Types: No and Show DOS extensions: Yes.

> That sounds fine Peter, but note that you will have to give the new
> mount a different name for the moment (e.g. 'HardDisc5'), otherwise it
> probably won't be registered (i.e. I don't think you can have 2 mounts
> on the RISC OS icon bar with the same name).

Many thanks to all for the help and advice. However, there are still 
problems! I used Tools > Options to create a new mount, calling it 
HD4, and leaving the original HardDisc4 as well. Running VRPC now 
gives me quite the wrong screen mode, which I wasn't able to change. 
Also, of course, all the Look at and Run in !Boot are missing, but 
that's to be expected.

I may be about to be a coward and abandon the whole idea, unless 
anyone can give me an idiot's idea as to what I may have dome wrong 
over what is essentially an unusable screen mode.

[snip]

Best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc W) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung at ormail.co.uk




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