INSTALLATION GUIDE

5.25 DISK DRIVES

Use "COPYQM" to place the "PCPM86A.DSK" & "PCPM86B.DSK" images onto two 5.25
disks & boot on the "PCPM86A.DSK".There should be no problems.

3.5 DISK DRIVES

Because this disk image was taken from a 5.25 disk, certain "cheats" must be 
set up first.

1. In the BIOS/SETUP utility set your 3.5 Floppy to a 1.2  5.25 Disk
2. Install "COPYQM" so that this program recognises the "false" 5.25 Drive
3. Use "COPYQM" to place the "PCPM8620.DSK" image onto a 3.5 720kB disk.

Leave the BIOS/SETUP as above & the PCP/M boot disk should work.

HD INSTALLATION

1. First, an "area must be cleared" for the PCP/M partition, "PARTITION MAGIC"
or a Shareware product such as "FIPS" could be used, alternatively, start from 
new & use the MS-DOS "FDISK" to create the new primary DOS partition, leaving
the required space for PCP/M.

2.Install your Operating System as normal eg MS-DOS

3.Boot the PCP/M system & use the "HDMAINT" program & follow the menu driven
prompts

4.When this is done log to A: & use the "PIP" command  

5.At the PIP prompt (*) use :
   B:=A:*.*[RVW]

6.All system files & commands from the floppy will now be taken to the Hard  
Disk

7.Repeat for "PCPM86B.DSK"

8.NB. On one floppy disk system, your hard disk is "B" drive not "C" as for
 MS-DOS. There will be 3 virtual drives available "N, O, P" for multitasking!!

GENERAL

To transfer PCP/M files in DOS format use "22DISK" & select the "IBM" disk 
format on disks formatted using "DISK" under PCP/M  (22DISK INSTALLED WITH 1.2
A: DRIVE)

Remember, use the PCP/M-86 "DISK" command to make SYSTEM DISKS & not "22DISK"
"COPYQM" or "ANADISK" should make copies of your original boot disk.

The "BASIC" program works quite well, available at this site

BOOT MANAGERS
Either a boot manager can be installed (remember to leave 1 or 2 Mbyte when 
partitioning) or the "ACTIVE PARTITION" can be called with the respective
Operating System's HD utility.

HARD DISK SIZE
This was tested on a AMD P133 PCI M/BOARD with a removable 540Mb disk
with all HD PARAMETERS set to "AUTO" & on a 486dx66 VESA M/BOARD.
The PCP/M "HDMAINT" program also "saw" a 2 Gigabyte HD
The partition sizes are performed under PCP/M using "CYLINDERS" & NOT 
"Mb's", similar to early versions of MSDOS

When installation is complete, experiment & see if your floppy can be reset
back to its normal parameters for for use under PCPM-86 (3.5 disk drive)


S.J.Davies   16 FEB 1998