Is there an E-UAE tutorial for dummies?

[TheBilgeRat]

Sorry if this has been beaten ad-nauseum but I am mainly trying to "take the next step" with my emulator and run a proper workbench session off of a virtual hard drive.

My main questions are:

Can I write to my computer's floppy from E-UAE without a catweasel (in theory to make disks for my soon to be arriving A2000)?
How does one "install" WB3.1/1.3/etc to a virtual HD?
How does one move files from the host to the virtual desktop? (lha, picasso96, etc)?
Can I point my virtual workbench at a physical CDROm installed on my machine?

I apologise if this is yet another newb posting-perhaps there is a good FAQ/tutorial somewhere?  I tried this:

http://www.pcguru.plus.com/guides.html

and this:

http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html

But still just get weird screen resolutions and general goofiness no matter what I fiddle with in the .uaerc file.  I am using linux so no winuae for me unless I want to fiddle with wine or setting up another virtual box (winxP).

Any help, advice, or general ribbing is welcome!

[TheBilgeRat]

well, after laying with Win_UAE tonight E-UAE and Win-UAE are two ENTIRELY different beasts.  THink I'll have to get it working in wine or emulate an emulation.

[TheBilgeRat]

Thank you- it does!  I am running Ubuntu (well, xubuntu) 32bit so the libs are ok.  I've got games pretty easily figured out on it- I'm just ready to do more.  And winuae makes it lok so easy comparatively

[TheBilgeRat]

I'm compiling E-UAE from source.  I get a feeling the pre-packaged deb's are acting funny on my compy.  I shall test and post.

[TheBilgeRat]

The version I am running was compiled from source, but that was back when Ubuntu 8.04 was bleeding edge :lol:
 
I had problems with a 64-bit native target, so in the end I built a 32-bit one. That required installing a few 32-bit libraries (mostly for X11 stuff) in order to get working on my 64-bit distro.

 
Things do seem to be working better after compilation, although I'm not postive how MUCH better.  E-UAE seems to release hold of ALSA cleaner at any rate.

[TheBilgeRat]

One bug I still have is that setting higher RTG resolutions (higher than 1280x960 on this machine) causes the the app to segfault. AHI doesn't work either. Although I'm not sure if that's simply because it isn't supported in E-UAE yet.

I really ought to look at the code

well, I watched gcc complain a lot about crummy syntax when it was compiling :lol: