[Coco] 6809 NitrOS-9 Problems

[Mark Marlette]

At 11:53 PM 8/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Robert,

I as well had no problems.

Mark
Cloud-9

>Mannequin* wrote:
>>On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:15:51 -0400
>>Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Mannequin* wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>I just downloaded the disk images for the 6809 NitrOS-9 Level II. After I
>>>>transfered them to disk and tried to run it on my stock 6809 Coco III 
>>>>w/512k
>>>>of RAM, it failed.
>>...
>>
>>>Most likely you did not transfer the images to disk correctly or used 
>>>the wrong DSKINI.EXE program. Note the repetition of module names in the 
>>>printout. That should not happen.
>>>
>>>Which image did you attempt to boot and exactly how did you convert the 
>>>image into a real disk?
>>
>>I'm using the "V03.02.04 Release - August 3, 2004" of "NitrOS-9/6809 
>>Level 2 for
>>the CoCo 3." I converted them by using the DSKINI.EXE that was provided from
>><http://www.nitros9.org/> and I downloaded everything today around 7pm 
>>CST. :)
>>Here's what I did to convert them:
>>C:\> CD MYDOCU~1\DOWNLO~1\NITROS9
>>C:\My Documents\downloads\nitros9> DSKINI /T40 /D B: NOS968~1.DSK
>>- OUTPUT -
>>C:\My Documents\downloads\nitros9> DSKINI /T40 /D B: NOS968~2.DSK
>>- OUTPUT -
>>The NOS968~1.DSK = NOS96809L2V030204_DS40_1.DSK
>>The NOS968~2.DSK = NOS96809L2V030204_DS40_2.DSK
>>The output said that each DSKINI was sucessful. I then took it to my Coco 
>>3 and
>>put in the first disk, typed "DOS<ENTER>" and you saw what I got in my first
>>post.
>>Oh, and I used DS DD 5.25" disks, also. :)
>>Everything above board so far? :)
>>-M.
>That should have worked. Just to be sure, I downloaded the same zip file 
>and extracted the 6809L2 DS40_1 .dsk. I was able to get it to boot normally.
>
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