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 Installation and Use of the Universal Disc Structure  (!Boot only)
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Please read and understand the LICENCE document in this directory before
proceeding.


This disc image is intended for use on a locally-booting system running RISC
OS >=3.10. It is not suitable for use in booting discless RISC OS clients or
NCs over a network connection. 


You will need approximately 6Mb of free space on your hard drive to perform
the extraction and installation process as detailed below.


This disc image is derived from the image installed on the J233 Risc PCs
at manufacture time; various materials have been removed from the J233
image to create this build which only contains the contents of the !Boot
directory.


Installation
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To install the RISC OS 3 Universal Boot Sequence onto your harddisc you
need to extract the !Boot directory from the UNIBOOT/ARC archive using
!SparkFS (if you have it), or !SparkPlug into the root directory of your
harddisc.


If you already have a !Boot application it should be renamed to be called
oldboot before extracting the new !Boot sequence. DO NOT just copy
the new !Boot over the top of your existing !Boot. 


If you do not have a copy of !SparkPlug, examine http://acorn.riscos.com/ 
you should find a BASIC program called dearchiv.bas (or similar) inside the
riscos/releases directory. *settype this program to type BASIC if it does not
have a BASIC icon associated with it already in your filer window, and run it.
This BASIC program will proceed to extract a copy of !SparkPlug into your
currently selected directory.


Now Reboot the computer.


You should now find yourself running the new !Boot; your machine will start
up as though it is an out-of-the-box J233.


Reconfigure your system using the !Configure application built into !Boot;
double-click on !Boot to run it. Further configuration documentation can be
found in the Manuals directory.


You will subsequently need to move the applications you use at startup time
into the new !Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk / !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks
directories, and / or edit your !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks.!Boot file
accordingly.


Copyright (c) Pace Micro Technology 2001.