[Coco] I finally got Nitros 3.2.4 to work!

[Mark Marlette]

At 8/24/2004 10:46 PM -0600, you wrote:

Fred,

Cloud-9 Lab North sent you the disks and they were verified here before I 
sent them. Sounds like you have hardware issues.

Use the scripts in the Nitros9/ver0302xx/scripts directory. They show 
exactly what is going on and prompt you on how to create a disk.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9



>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

>

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