You resolved my issues! Indeed, I had several installations of RPCEmu and this was from the wrong installation. After cleaning up, and finding the correct directory, I was able to get things running with a blank harddisk image (to make sure I was editing the correct hd4.hdf file) and then after prepending my own hard disk image with 512 zero bytes, I had my old machine running in the emulator! Amazing.
I have a couple of warnings that I suspect I probably also had on the old machine, but most things seem to work. The drive is full of my old BASIC programs, whose purpose/function mostly elude me now, but I'm looking forward to rediscovering them. :-)
I don't suppose the emulator has a feature to emulate the presence of the Impressions Publisher dongle, so I can open up my old documents? That is the only real issue I have left to solve...
Great to have the HostFS integration to extract files from the hard drive, I'm impressed, both with the old RISC OS for having a mechanism to recognise/discover pluggable file systems, and RPCEmu for being able to present a virtual filesystem to RISC OS. A very nice tight integration. :-)
Pete
On 27. Apr 2020, at 21:05, Timothy Coltman <lists@maemagel.com> wrote:_______________________________________________On 27 Apr 2020, at 19:42, Peter Moore <petemoore@gmx.net> wrote:Hi guys!I installed the new RPCEmu, and managed to dump an image of my RISC PC 600 hard drive using `dd` on linux.I copied the raw hard disk image to the RPCEmuDataDir as hd4.hdf and have RISC OS 3.60 roms in place.I followed the instructions on https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf but when i run the first command I get the following error:<Screenshot 2020-04-27 at 20.33.10.png>RISC OS 24MBSupervisor*dir aufs::4.$Disc drive not known (Error number &108AC)*Strange - your boot messages don't include ADFS. Is your CMOS corrupted? I'd try copying the one from my recent Mac release, as that's the one supplied with the source, so should contain some sensible defaults. If that doesn't work, check to see if the module is unplugged (*RomModules).Incidentally, which release are you using? The "plist" file you included looks like one of Francis Devereux's from the 0.8.x versions (judging from the file name).Does the raw device file produced by dd need to be altered in any way for it to work?It looks like it (Sarah is the original author of RPCEmu):There are some instructions here:Tim
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