marwood@NCS-DRE.ARPA (Gordon Marwood) (08/31/88)
Rather belatedly I have started to use ZCPR3.3 after several years of using ZCPR2. I am, however, having some trouble with the particular installation that I would like to use, and I am looking for some assistance. The system that I use is an Apple //+ with a PCPI Applicard CP/M card. I have a 512K RAM disk on the Applicard. I would like to arrange the ZCPR3.3 system so that the RAM disk is drive A: two 5.25" floppies are B: and C: and two 8" floppies are D: and E: The standard Applicard INSTALL process allows an AUTOST.COM file on either A: or B: (only). After setting up various buffer areas and the PATH, AUTOST finishes by invoking STARTUP. I have successfully installed ZCPR3.3 by making the first (boot) 5.25" drive A: the second 5.25" B: and the RAM disk C: etc. However, if I try to make my desired configuration (RAM disk A: etc), LDR.COM cannot find the SYS.* files, unless I put them on the A: drive first. This is obviously not practical in the case of a cold boot from power off, as A: is the RAM disk. I think that I am using a fairly standard STARTUP alias (LDR SYS.FCP,SYS.NDR,SYS etc...) and I have set the path as A0,A15,B0,B15. With this path the SYS.* files cannot be found on the B:, which I don't understand. I have made up an alternative STARTUP alias which is LDR B:SYS.FCP,B:NDR etc, but the SYS.* files are still not found. It appears that they must be on the A: drive for the boot to be completed. Is it possible to change this ? I have moved the SYS.* files onto the RAM disk after an incomplete boot and then run STARTUP again and the boot will complete properly. Also if I leave them on the RAM disk and do a cold boot without turning the power off (which I can do with the Applicard), the boot goes through to completion. I am obviously doing something wrong, as I cannot imagine that the SYS.* files must be on the A: drive. Any help would be appreciated. Gordon Marwood
marwood@NCS-DRE.ARPA (Gordon Marwood) (09/08/88)
I put out the following message to info-cpm a short while ago, but did not receive any replies. As our system here was having problems during that period, I might have missed them. If you are able to help with this, please reply via info-cpm, as we may not be accessible by all sites. message follows ...... From marwood Tue Aug 30 22:02:08 1988 To: info-cpm@simtel20.arpa Subject: ZCPR3.3 installation Status: RO Rather belatedly I have started to use ZCPR3.3 after several years of using ZCPR2. I am, however, having some trouble with the particular installation that I would like to use, and I am looking for some assistance. The system that I use is an Apple //+ with a PCPI Applicard CP/M card. I have a 512K RAM disk on the Applicard. I would like to arrange the ZCPR3.3 system so that the RAM disk is drive A: two 5.25" floppies are B: and C: and two 8" floppies are D: and E: The standard Applicard INSTALL process allows an AUTOST.COM file on either A: or B: (only). After setting up various buffer areas and the PATH, AUTOST finishes by invoking STARTUP. I have successfully installed ZCPR3.3 by making the first (boot) 5.25" drive A: the second 5.25" B: and the RAM disk C: etc. However, if I try to make my desired configuration (RAM disk A: etc), LDR.COM cannot find the SYS.* files, unless I put them on the A: drive first. This is obviously not practical in the case of a cold boot from power off, as A: is the RAM disk. I think that I am using a fairly standard STARTUP alias (LDR SYS.FCP,SYS.NDR,SYS etc...) and I have set the path as A0,A15,B0,B15. With this path the SYS.* files cannot be found on the B:, which I don't understand. I have made up an alternative STARTUP alias which is LDR B:SYS.FCP,B:NDR etc, but the SYS.* files are still not found. It appears that they must be on the A: drive for the boot to be completed. Is it possible to change this ? I have moved the SYS.* files onto the RAM disk after an incomplete boot and then run STARTUP again and the boot will complete properly. Also if I leave them on the RAM disk and do a cold boot without turning the power off (which I can do with the Applicard), the boot goes through to completion. I am obviously doing something wrong, as I cannot imagine that the SYS.* files must be on the A: drive. Any help would be appreciated. Gordon Marwood P.S. also related to the above, I have found that if I am using DU (yes, the original version), and I try to write some of the Y)anked sectors to the A: drive, (e.g. KA0:filename.ext), an attempt is made to write to the B: drive. The resulting file seems to be known to the system, but I then cannot find it with SWEEP. Maybe I should not be using DU with ZCPR3.3. I have not checked this yet.