[spedmetal]

Well there probably is a better way of doing it then the way I'm about to tell you but this was how I did it with the DMS3.

1) Your SYSTEM.CNF should look like this

BOOT2 = cdrom0:\EXPLORER.ELF;1
VER = 1.00
VMODE = NTSC

2) Your INSTALL.CNF should look like this

DMS Explorer 1.0
NO_ENTRY
_MKDIR mc0:\BOOT
COPY cdrom0:\HDLOADER.ELF;1 mc0:\BOOT\BOOT.ELF

3) From your DMS Explorer extract the EXPLORER.ELF and 0.BIN

4) Have your HDLOADER.ELF patched how you want it and packed.

5) Have all these files in there own folder.

6) load them all up in CDgenPS2 and creat a bin/cue of your project.

7) Burn to a CD-R

8) load it up in your PS2 you will, you will see the DMS Explorer load up but when you go to install it, it wont install the Explorer but the HDLOADER.ELF to your \BOOT holder on your memory card. This will also over ride your DMS explorer and now you can set your DMS3 to default to dev1 mode on boot up and the first thing you will see when your PS2 boots is HDloader.

Now you can do all this with out having to burn discs and compile install scripts and all that mumbo jumbo.

1) Download ExecFTPs and burn it to a CD-R you might need to configure CONFIG.DAT to your local netwrok settings before burning to disc.

2) Once you have burned it to disc load it up in your PS2, when its has set up the FTP on your network simply log onto your PS2 from your PC with FlashFXP and you can then access the CD, HDD, and memory card.

3) Go into the memory card and delete anything in the \BOOT folder then upload your patched and packed HDLOADER.ELF (make sure HDL is called BOOT.ELF) then like I said before simply set your DMS3 to default to dev1 mode on boot and HDloader will be the first thing to pop up.

Now the only thing with doing it this way is that you loose your DMS Explorer, but you gain HDloader which is better. Now like I said I'm sure there are other ways but thats how I did it a long time ago.

Good luck.