[GEM Development] GEM/XM VDI source

[Ben A L Jemmett]

Quoting "Shane M. Coughlan" <shane at shaneland.co.uk>:
> On starting the system tries to read drive E: (CD) and reports that it
> is not ready if there is no disk inserted.  I have to click CANCEL to
> continue.

I'm going to guess that drive E: is the last drive letter in use on your system?
 XM will, by default, use the last drive found for its swap.  I'd be tempted to
follow John's advice in
http://www.simpits.org/pipermail/gem-dev/2006-March/000977.html -- configure it
to use something else -- if SUBST is still broken in FreeDOS.

> The next problem is that the desktop does not start.  A message appears
> saying that the application cannot open the file or folder that I have
> specified.

I suspect DESKTOP.APP isn't being found, although I'd actually expect the "To
continue, insert your GEM DESKTOP diskette in drive A and click OK, or click
Cancel to return to DOS." alert instead.  Where have you got DESKTOP.APP?  Prior
to GEM/3 it lived in the \GEMDESK directory, so unless John changed that
expectation I'd try putting it there.

[I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to look at John's changes yet -- real life
got in the way of tinkering, as it so often does.]

-- 
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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