Documentation for SysUpdate64 and SysUpdate128This program will upgrade your Wheels MASTER disks and BOOT disks/partitions to the same as Wheels V4.4. There's no need to completely recreate your disks. This upgrade is for Wheels V4.2 users. If your original Wheels disk has a lower version number on the label, contact Click Here Software for information on how to obtain a new upgraded disk. With this upgrade, you should have the following files...
For Wheels 64:
For Wheels 128:
Follow these instructions and the upgrade process should proceed without any problems. The first step in the upgrade process is to copy the new Toolbox to an existing MASTER disk. If you're not sure what the difference is between a MASTER disk and a BOOT disk, the MASTER disk is just like your original Wheels disk. You should have already created a few of these using MakeSysDisk. With a MASTER disk, you can create additional MASTER or BOOT disks using MakeSysDisk. A BOOT disk is only capable of booting up the system. MakeSysDisk cannot create additional disks from a BOOT disk. Now that you have the new Toolbox on a MASTER disk, shut down your system and reboot from that same disk. This will make sure that the new disk drivers in the new Toolbox are running. Note: Before upgrading any disk or partition, you must first copy the new Toolbox to that disk or partition. So, copy the new Toolbox to the disks or partitions you plan to upgrade. Now you can run SysUpdate64 or SysUpdate128 depending on your system. The first screen you see gives you a choice of updating a MASTER disk or a BOOT disk. Click on one of these options to proceed. Next, you'll be prompted by a dialog box to choose the drive containing the MASTER or BOOT disk (or partition). Choose the location of the desired drive. If upgrading a boot partition, be sure to also select the desired partition. You'll find a button to click on that will bring up the partition selection box. If you insert a different disk into one of the drives, click on that drive to reread the disk name and it will show up in the dialog box. Once you're finished selecting the drive, click on OK to continue. The program will proceed to upgrade the SYSTEM1 and SYSTEM2 files. If you've chosen to upgrade a MASTER disk, it will also upgrade your MakeSysDisk application. If upgrading a 5.25 inch disk, you'll be prompted to flip the disk to side 2 to finish the upgrading of MakeSysDisk. If any error occurs, the process will stop at that point and display a dialog box indicating an error occurred. If no errors were encountered, a dialog box indicating the process was successful will appear. Click OK to return back to the main screen. At this point, you can perform another upgrade on another disk or partition. TIP: Upgrade the current MASTER disk that you've booted from and then reboot once again from that disk so that you're now running the new upgraded kernal. Go ahead and continue upgrading additional disks or partitions afterwards. But, before upgrading any additional disks or partitions, you need to first copy the new Toolbox to those disks or partitions.
What am I getting with this upgrade? The new Toolbox is the result of many hours spent working on the code for each disk driver. Many improvements have been implemented along with the usual minor bug fixes if any have been found. Some of the disk drivers run somewhat faster. Perhaps the most noticeable speed improvement is with the FD and HD. Every single disk driver has some sort of fix or improvement. Maybe you won't notice the changes, but they are there, nevertheless. The whole system will run smoother. If you don't really notice anything different, that means things are probably working correctly! The new Toolbox contains a new kernal patch routine that will patch certain parts of the kernal during bootup. This allows future patches and fixes by simply updating this portion of the Toolbox. As with Toolbox V5.3, the new Toolbox provides the ability to use certain programs such as The Wave. A few bugs are fixed and some minor needed improvements are implemented within the SYSTEM2 file. This adds a STOP key check to the validation routines. If the STOP key is pressed before the final routine runs during a disk validate, no change will occur to the disk. This allows you to cancel out of the operation or to stop a neverending loop that might occur with a very badly trashed disk. The file and disk copiers get some improvements, especially with the 64 version. The single drive mode apparently never worked properly. Now it does. Although it's still recommended to use two disk drives whenever copying disks or individual files. The numerous disk swapping can be painful and adds to the possibility of accidentally inserting the wrong disk when prompted. MakeSysDisk gets a number of improvements. On the 128, it will let you add a boot sector to a BOOT disk if the sector isn't already in use. When using the single drive mode for making a MASTER disk, the disk copier is used instead of the file copier. This can result in fewer disk swaps if you have enough unused ram expansion memory. MakeSysDisk also lets you copy an input driver and printer driver to the BOOT disk you're creating. There are many other little improvements that were taken care of as development progressed. Most of these fixes or changes were never documented. But you can be assured that you'll have a much improved and smoother Wheels system with this latest upgrade. When the upgrade is finished, you can check the information in each file header by clicking once on a file icon to highlight it and then select 'info' from the Dashboard's 'file' menu. The version number of the SYSTEM2 file should become V4.4 and MakeSysDisk should become V1.9. The SYSTEM1 file will still remain as V4.2 in Wheels 64 and V4.1 in Wheels 128. During bootup, the Toolbox performs the patches to the copy of this file that resides in memory and it becomes V4.4. On disk, it will still be V4.2. If you have any problems or suggestions, feel free to email me.
Maurice Randall
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