[Coco] I finally got Nitros 3.2.4 to work!

[Frederick D Provoncha]

Hello everyone,

Well, I finally succeeded in booting up NitrOS9 3.2.4 to boot up on my
Coco. Thank you Boisy and everyone else for your suggestions and comments
over the last few months.

I never did succeed in creating a 40-track double-sided boot disk with
the .dsk images downloaded from the NitrOS-9 site. Boisy mailed me a boot
disk on a 40-track double-sided 5 1-4" floppy and that didn't work
either. I think something in my setup was preventing my Coco from reading
40-track double-sided disks. That's still a mystery to me. Then soon
after that I came upon the idea of using Drivewire to access a NitrOS-9
3.2.4 disk image! I connected the Drivewire cable between my Coco and my
PC, created a new boot disk including the Drivewire driver and
descriptors, and attached the NitrOS-9 3.2.4 disk image to the PC
Drivewire server. I then rebooted the Coco and sure enough, the Coco
could read the disk image using Drivewire! I then transferred the entire
contents of the disk image to my Coco's hard drive and using the scripts
included I created a new boot disk. NitrOS-9 3.2.4 is now up and running!

I'm now in the process of configuring the system, and I've run into a
couple of small problems. In recent releases of NitrOS-9, a lot of the
names of the modules that make up the OS have changed. That's making it
hard for me to figure out exactly which modules I need in my OS9Boot
file. Most of them I've figured out, but I'm stumped on a couple of them.

First of all, I can't get the hi-res joystick adaptor to work. I've
included cc3io.dr, keydrv_cc3.sb, snddrv_cc3.sb, and joydrv_joy.sb in my
OS9Boot file. What else do I need?

I have my Coco's hard drive partitioned between RGB-DOS and OS-9. I would
like to boot NitrOS-9 from Drive 255 of the RGB-DOS partition. What
boottrack file(s) do I need to use to accomplish this? All the boottrack
files that I've tried will only boot NitrOS-9 from a floppy.

Any ideas?

Fred Provoncha