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- Altering your Boot Sequence
- =-------------------------=
-
- If this file has been loaded, then either you didn't want !Hardapps to fiddle
- with your boot, or an error occured while it was trying.
-
- If you do not have a boot file, then please go down to the bottom of this
- file and look for the title "No Boot File?".
-
- !HardApps cannot cope with !Boot applications like on the RISCPC. (However,
- you cannot use !HardApps on a RISCPC so that doesn't really matter!) If it
- does encounter a !Boot Application then it will load this file up.
-
- In order to work, !HardApps must be run in your !boot file. It will not run
- the wimp task, it will initialise the ResourceFS instead and make everything
- nice!
-
- To Add !HardApps to your boot, you must load your !Boot file (Or any other
- file that is run before the desktop mulittasks) up into !Edit or some other
- text editor, and type in the following lines. Then save your !Boot file back
- onto your hard drive. For <ROMAPPS-PATH> substitute the actual path into your
- ROMApps directory.
-
- Set Temp$Dir <Obey$Dir>
- Run <ROMAPPS-PATH>.!HardApps.!Commands
- Set Obey$Dir <Temp$Dir>
-
- Now save your !Boot file back to where it came from. Reset your computer and
- !Hard Apps should appear in your ResourceFS. If you have any more trouble
- using it, load up !Help (In the ResouceFS) and move it onto any Hard Apps
- window to glean useful information off it.
-
- NB !HardApps makes a copy of your original !Boot file inside it's directory
- if you want to get it back. (If you allow it to try and fiddle with your
- !boot)
-
- © Owain Cole Sat 15th April 1995
-
- "No Boot File"
- =------------=
-
- If you do know how to make a !boot file, then make one of your own design and
- then just follow the above instructions to add to it. If you don't then read
- the following:
-
- If you do not have a boot file on your machine, then don't worry, they are
- very easy to make. All you have to do is follow the below instructions.
-
- 1) Close all the Filer windows apart from that of the root of your Hard
- drive.
-
- 2) Remove any unwanted icons from your pinboard. (Don't worry if you don't
- know what I'm going on about, just ignore this line). Also close down any
- unwanted tasks. Change to the mode you want the desktop to start up in and
- make sure your palette is set right.
-
- 3) Click the middle button on the Task manager icon. (Normally an Acorn!) Go
- across on Desktop Boot.
-
- 4) This should open up a small window. Make sure the 'Auto boot' icon is
- selected. Drag the file onto the root of your Hard Drive.
-
- Now the boot file is saved, then all you have to do is configure your
- computer right so that it uses the !Boot file.
-
- 1) Press Ctrl and F12 at the same time. This will open up a task window. Make
- sure it has the input focus, then type the following.
-
- 2) *Configure Boot
-
- 3) *configure FileSystem (After Filesystem, type the filing system that your
- hard drive uses eg *configure FileSystem ADFS, *configure FileSystem IDEFS,
- *configure FileSystem SCIFS)
-
- 4)*configure drive (After drive, type the drive number of your hard drive,
- normally 4. eg *configure drive 4)
-
- If you have an ADFS hard disc then your computer will have been configured,
- otherwise you will have to follow the instructions of how to configure your
- computer that were given to you in the user guide that came with your hard
- drive.
-
- © Owain Cole Sat 15th April 1995