[Virtualacorn-list] Incompatible host

[Mik Towse]

In article <578e77c9d4cvjazz at waitrose.com> Chris Newman via Virtualacorn-list  wrote:

> In article <1UTFZezDjS.7Kcv8barYCi at desktop-9ht27pj>, T.O.M.S. via
> Virtualacorn-list <virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> > Most importantly, please note that, at the bottom (under 'Change to
> > VirtualRPC default installation path'), the article specifies that
> > VirtualRPC should no longer be installed in the 'old' C:\Program
> > Files\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-xxx  folder but in the 'new' location at
> > C:\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-xxx 
[snip]
> Is there any pressing reason why it should be in the c drive?
Because everyone has a C: drive and if everyone installs to the same place,
it's easier to support?

I understand TOMS take on not separating HD4 from the program, but it
shouldn't actually matter where HD4 is, so long as the Model.cfg points to
the correct location. The problem, of course, is when people mess without
really understanding what they are doing... ;)

I'm pretty confident setting up VRPC, but last year a Windows update decided
to restart the computer without asking. As we know(?) VRPC can get upset with
this (& rightly so IMO). I had a backup of CMOS, but on Andrew's advice I'd
switched to using 7500 in preference to SA and I'd forgotten to backup that
Model.cfg file.

This is how I discovered that mount0 must be the first mount in Model.cfg and
I wasn't very good at copying text accurately from another version's .cfg. 8)

> I have run VA in a partition very succesfully with only two problems which
> were easily solved. One was a CMOS corruption do to me inadvertently
> pulling the plug (duh!) & the partition filling up due to the fact that
> Transient was saving everything forever & it had filled up with deleted
> Risc OSM map files (now sorted).
I never put my copy in a partition for that reason. Why limit drive space
available to it? As I said previously, at one time I was running VRPC from a
USB HDD E: with my HD4 in the VirtualAcorn folder alongside it.

ATT my main computer was a RISCBook, but when I bought a RISCube it was no
longer viable to do that, because I needed to be able to use VRPC on either
m/c using the same HD4. Desktop for home use, laptop when on the go.

So I bought a second copy of VRPC to install on the RISCube which accessed my
USB E:-based HD4. It meant I could unplug the USB, plug in to the laptop &
away I'd go (lit.)

However, after a while the USB drive started disappearing from the Windows
filer. It seemed that the USB was spinning down due to lack of activity and
Windows just 'forgot' about it! So the live HD4 (& friends) got moved to my
RISCube's C: Documents folder, which I backup up to E: for when I need to
travel.

Which all means I've been using HD4 outside of the VA folder for many years.

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