On Thursday 24 November 2011 18:51:29 Matthew Phillips wrote: > In message <5539778.ZINnjT9eyz@igor> > > on 19 Nov 2011 Andy Fawcett wrote: > > > However, it would still be good to know how multiple discs would be > > > useful to you, as I may be able to suggest a workaround for you > > > depending on your needs. > > > > I have multiple instances of RPCemu, one per ROM version I use, and > > because of various issues I want to keep the !Boot separate for each > > one, > > but share everything else between them. > > > > Secondly, I definitely prefer the ability to move files around from my > > host OS, so would prefer not to use the ADFS images. > > When I was using a Linux netbook regularly, I had a HostFS drive pointing to > a subdirectory of my home directory, which I operated as the main RISC OS > drive. But also, for convenience, I had a second HostFS drive which > pointed at the root of my home directory. That one was set to read-only. > This meant I could access any of my files from RISC OS but didn't run the > risk of some malfunctioning software I was developing running rampant all > over my Linux home directory. > > There were a couple of things I altered in the source for HostFS. I've no > idea whether they're a problem in the present version. One was that it hid > files and folders whose names began with "." by default. I preferred to see > them, but had to suppress "." and ".." of course. > > The other problem I had was something to do with CVS. I think I may have > been running CVS from RISC OS and had some kind of trouble when the source > code was hosted on HostFS. Or perhaps I wanted to use CVS from Linux and > compile from RISC OS (using Norcroft). Whatever it was it didn't work so I > had to do the development work using an ADFS hard disc image. > > Another interesting effect was that HostFS was not able to follow the NFS > mount in my home directory which pointed to our Iyonix's hard drive. I > never found out why. It just appeared as an empty directory.
Thanks for the hints. I'll take a look at the source to see if I can adapt it to my needs, and if I do then naturally I'll send a diff to see if it is useful for others. Andy _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
