VirtualAcorn Technical support:
Installing VirtualRPC on an Asus Eee (or similar)
We have a number of customers now running VirtualRPC on different models of the Eee. So in order to assist other users considering using one of these SCC (Small Cheap Computers) we are providing the following quick installation guide.
Provided that the machine is running Windows XP (you can't install VirtualRPC on a machine running Linux - such as the Elonex One) and has enough spare disc storage (allow 1Gb of disc space for a VirtualRPC - plus your files) it's quite trivial to get it to work.
You will need a method of installing the VRPC. This can be either via an external CD ROM drive, or you can transfer the entire VRPC install CD to a pen drive, using another computer, and install via this pen drive. Note that when using a PenDrive you will need to start the main VirtualAcorn install Menu manually. To do this open the pen drive under Windows and double click on the CDStarter.exe application.
Once the VRPC is installed a couple of small modifications will need to be made to allow for the lack of an internal CD drive. You can ignore this section of your machine has an internal CD drive, but at the time of writing no SCC is available with a built in drive.
Instructions are as follows:
- Install the VRPC and any software packs.
- Under Windows explorer navigate to the VRPC install folder:
- C:\Program Files\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-xxx\
- Make a new folder called PluginsDisabled.
- Now move the following folders from the current Plugins folder to the PluginsDisabled folder:
Once these steps have been performed contact us for an unlock code in the normal way.
