Re: [Rpcemu] RISC OS 6 install instructions - revised

Hullo folks,

               Having just been through some clean installs of 6.20 under RPCEmu in the last week I've this morning hit a snag with the networking which I will investigate sometime over the weekend and document if it has implications for the updated installation instructions.

Accessing files commonly between several RPCEmu installations is something I've been doing.  I have a similar setup to share common data on my Windows 7/XP/Ubuntu tri-boot system.

My solution has been to clone the RPCEmu installations and rename them so I have:

* RPCEmu - 402
* RPCEmu - 439
* RPCEMu - 519

* RPCEmu - 620

Within these I have replaced the contents of the hostfs directory with the version-appropriate !Boot and applications directories.  This also preserves the individual emulator configurations and the CMOS RAM settings which is a necessity.

My Data and Installation directories are within a 5th directory called "RPCEmu - common".  These then have NTFS "junctions" made from them to a point within the hostfs directory of each of the emulations.

This works perfectly and delivers high convenience with low cost (disc space is cheap - especially for RPCEmu itself).  The only thing that junctions cannot do is to link across filing systems such as network drives (at least those that don't have a virtual drive letter) but in that situation I use !Omni or !LanMan98 which work very well indeed and store files with exactly the same naming syntax used by hostFS so you can drag 'n' drop them in a Windows/Ubuntu environment.

I use this utility:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

to create my junctions and it is exemplary.

Cheerio!

Mike