RISC OS Open: Forum: Upgrading 5.17 to 5.19 - stuck at the first fence....

Apr 22, 2013 5:50pm

I’m not sure of the correct procedure to upgrade an existing 089/517 installation to 089/519. The ‘ROM downloads – RiscPC, A7000, A7000+, RPCemu’ IOMDHalDev.zip softload appears to contain a !Boot file but no recogisable ROM that I can copy into RPCEmu’s ‘roms’ folder in place of the existing ‘riscos517’ file; or should I leave the latter in place to be softloaded-over?

Apr 22, 2013 6:13pm

Wouter Rademaker (458) 197 posts

Dig deeper, it is /soft/!Boot/Choices/Boot/PreDesk/!!SoftLoad/riscos

Apr 23, 2013 5:53pm

George T. Greenfield (154) 748 posts

Thanks, Wouter, that did the trick. I’m now having problems with the !Boot file imported from the previous 5.17 installation. The recommended procedure is to extract the clean !Boot from HardDisc4 and install that. Unfortunately I’m having problems extracting both the tarball and self-extracting versions of HD4: using UnTarBZ2 on the first results in a directory checksum error; double-clicking on HardDisc4/Utility, as recommended, gives an ‘unknown application’ error. RPCEmu’s HardDisc4 checks OK with Disknight, so I don’t understand the directory checksum error problem. Any/all suggestions gratefully received! Thanks in anticipation.

Apr 24, 2013 8:50am

George T. Greenfield (154) 748 posts

Problems solved, I’m happy to say, with the kind assistance of Tony Moore. One lesson: don’t decompress RO items using WinZip on Windows – the 5.19 rom and !Boot files which I thought were OK, weren’t!

Apr 24, 2013 11:49am

Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts

don’t decompress RO items using WinZip on Windows

I can imagine it would make a mess of !Boot given the lack of meta data support – but it is okay for extracting the base ROM image – it’s what I use.

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Apr 22, 2013 5:50pm George T. Greenfield (154) 748 posts	I’m not sure of the correct procedure to upgrade an existing 089/517 installation to 089/519. The ‘ROM downloads – RiscPC, A7000, A7000+, RPCemu’ IOMDHalDev.zip softload appears to contain a !Boot file but no recogisable ROM that I can copy into RPCEmu’s ‘roms’ folder in place of the existing ‘riscos517’ file; or should I leave the latter in place to be softloaded-over?

Apr 22, 2013 6:13pm Wouter Rademaker (458) 197 posts	Dig deeper, it is /soft/!Boot/Choices/Boot/PreDesk/!!SoftLoad/riscos

Apr 23, 2013 5:53pm George T. Greenfield (154) 748 posts	Thanks, Wouter, that did the trick. I’m now having problems with the !Boot file imported from the previous 5.17 installation. The recommended procedure is to extract the clean !Boot from HardDisc4 and install that. Unfortunately I’m having problems extracting both the tarball and self-extracting versions of HD4: using UnTarBZ2 on the first results in a directory checksum error; double-clicking on HardDisc4/Utility, as recommended, gives an ‘unknown application’ error. RPCEmu’s HardDisc4 checks OK with Disknight, so I don’t understand the directory checksum error problem. Any/all suggestions gratefully received! Thanks in anticipation.

Apr 24, 2013 8:50am George T. Greenfield (154) 748 posts	Problems solved, I’m happy to say, with the kind assistance of Tony Moore. One lesson: don’t decompress RO items using WinZip on Windows – the 5.19 rom and !Boot files which I thought were OK, weren’t!

Apr 24, 2013 11:49am Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts	don’t decompress RO items using WinZip on Windows I can imagine it would make a mess of !Boot given the lack of meta data support – but it is okay for extracting the base ROM image – it’s what I use.