Re: Andrea Mazzoleni help please!

Andrea Mazzoleni <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mame.advancemame.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Andrea, you seem quite knowledgeable about all this stuff, and you are 
> kind enough to spoon-feed knowledge to us Linux Laypeople...From one 
> Italian to another, please help!
>  
> Is there some site somewhere with a tutorial on how AdvancemameCD 
> works?  I'm trying to make a bootable hard drive partition, not a CD.  I 
> was able to make the CD... I figured that part out on my own.
The advcd.txt file should contains all the required information. Anyway 
you should only run one of the "makepart" or "makeusb" script.

For Linux there is a bug which prevent the installation on partition 
bigger than 4 GB. You can solve this using the new version of the 
makebootfat program available at :

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/beta/

> I've got a big external USB hard drive I'm using. 
Using a so big USB harddisk is a problem. The USB boot tool used by 
AdvanceCD is limited to 1 GB size. It's mainly intended for USB stick 
devices.

To boot for a so big harddisk you must use an alternate USB boot tool. 
You can try using the "makeusbfreedos.sh" script available at

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/advancemame/advcd/contrib/makeusbfreedos.sh

instead of the "makeusb.sh"

The Windows version is at :

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/advancemame/advcd/contrib/makeusbfreedos.bat

WARNING! Please note that the "makeusb*" scripts completely DELETE the 
whole USB DISK! You cannot install it in a partition. Effectively the 
whole disk is always filled with a single big partition.

To install in a partition you can use the "makepart" script, but it 
doesn't support the USB boot. You must install an external boot tool.


Anyway, a new version AdvanceCD is nearly ready to be relased.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/advancemame/advcd/doc/histcd.d





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