[GEM Development] GEM/XM

[Shane M. Coughlan]

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> The important points in the README.TXT are the two SUBST commands.
> GEM/1 and GEM/2 expect to see GEMSYS, GEMBOOT, and GEMDESK
> directories in the root of the drive they're started from -- that's
> why I suggest something like SUBST F: GEMXM so the GEMXM directory
> appears to be the root of a new drive. Since it's loading the AES I
> reckon that bit's working fine, but worth checking.

GEMXM was in the root.  I put it into that drive because I want to
create a distro of GEM/XM.

> However, it also expects to have a swap drive -- I guess DRI
> intended this to be a hard drive or a RAMDrive in expanded/extended
> memory. It assumes the last drive letter on the system is your
> swap drive, so if that happens to be a CD-ROM drive or other
> removable disk with nothing in it you'll probably get the "drive
> not ready" error. It's been a long time since I used GEM on a
> system with floppy drives so I might be misremembering which dialog
> you're seeing, but I suspect that's the cause. That's why I
> suggest creating a swap directory and SUBSTing that to drive Z: in
> the readme; GEM/XM will then use this swap directory as its swap
> disk.

Ah.  That may well be my problem.  I had no swap drive.  Silly me.  I
will now go and make one, and test the system again.

Regards

Shane
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