Re: [Rpcemu] Disc not understood

In message <AFF35C77-DBA3-4C49-AB3C-CE4571362E0C@kitt.nl>
Peter van der Vos <peterthuis@kitt.nl> wrote:

>
> Op 20 jan. 2013, om 11:35 heeft george greenfield
> <george.greenfield@tiscali.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> In message <5310ebf1d4bob@mightyoak.org.uk>
>> Bob Latham <bob@mightyoak.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <20130118200238.4D7BE20353@orac.inputplus.co.uk>,
>>> Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The hard disc image (long file names) was downloaded from
>>> http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/ unpacked, and placed at
>>> Program files\RPCEmu.
>>>
>>> Using *status, I can see that idediscs is set to 1.
>>>
>>> I have not tried to format the disc.
>>>
>>> The disc from above says it is 262,080K bytes. The disc I used a couple of
>>> years back is 262,081KB. I've tied both and neither work.
>>
>> You could try downloading the 1GB disk image. Based on over a year's
>> experience with RPCEmu on a W7/64 PC, I'd question the usefulness of
>> an HD4 limited to 256MB; my current !Boot is 447Mb on its own,
>> including ScrapDirs and MPro spools….
>
> I would recommend to download a small HD4 and put the rest on a HostFS
> disc. This way communication with other machines is a lot simpler.
>
I do put as much as possible in HostFS, but my point was (and is), if
you use an email client such as Messenger, and do a lot of graphics
(as I do), it is very easy to exceed 256MB after a short while, simply
due to the enlargement of directories in !Boot.Resources.

George

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george greenfield

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