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Re: Bootable EMX disk

2003-10-08 by hartmaan2003

Update on progess of testing;
The file when uploaded (soon I promise)will be a self extracting 
file "EMX BOOT DISK.exe". It is a winimage program which you will 
need to run in order to create a bootable 1.44 FD (more detailed 
instructions later). When PC is booted from this created boot floppy 
it will and create a ramdisk and load DOS into it.You will get a 
prompt x:/EMX

You then just type EMX to launch EMX program.

Now the kind of tricky part. In order to get .em* files into this 
ramdisk you will need to have a cdrom drive and a cd with the samples 
in emx format. You then type cdrom at the x:/EMX prompt and it will 
load DOS cd drivers and then you will see which drive letter has been 
allocated to the CDrom drive. Usually c:. Change to this directory c: 
and type the DOS copy command eg; "copy 55-disk1.em2 x:"

This will copy the sample file to the emx directory. Change back to 
x:\EMX and type EMX to launch the EMX program. From here it is plain 
sailing [W] write file etc ....

I have run into a slight problem - I allocated 4megs to the ram drive 
and this should not be too much of a hassle unless you want to dump 
more than 4 megs worth of samples into the X:/EMX directory. I may 
increase the size as I was doing some 4 meg em2 files last night.

Please give me any feedback if you see any thing I should change.

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