[Coco] I finally got Nitros 3.2.4 to work!

[Mark Marlette]

At 8/25/2004 08:07 PM -0600, you wrote:

Fred,

I put your system together for you remember?????? :)

I do them all the same. The scripts are there. You are not looking in the 
correct spot or you over wrote them at some point. It is the ONLY way to 
get HDB-DOS on your hard drive and to boot. There are three scripts, 
make_floppy_d0, make_hard_dd and make_hdb_dd scripts. They have changed in 
their names now but are functionally the same. There is only ONE script on 
the NitrOS-9 distribution call mb, that makes just a floppy boot as you 
indicated. I STRONGLY recommend that you understand the process before you 
modify your scripts. Better yet, copy the scripts and/or bootlist filenames 
to an alternate name and reference those in the scripts. Source control is 
a GOOD thing. I personally would get your hardware issue(s) repaired first, 
while learning from the scripts. They are very simple. Look at the 
bootlists as well, that is where the modules are referenced and included in 
the OS9boot.....

I have installed NitrOS-9 on well over 70 systems here at Lab North, works 
every time......
I can do it in ~30 minutes start to finish. That is the copy and everything 
of the NitrOS-9 distribution. SuperDriver package aids in that 
tremendously, no more modifying descriptors. The OS figures out what it is 
talking to and how big it is. :)

I want to have another seminar at Chicago next year on this subject. Once 
you understand you'll go, what was the problem? :)

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9



>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:16:13 -0500 Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net>
>writes:
> > 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.
>
>Yes, I totally agree with you. I believe there is nothing wrong with the
>disks you guys sent me at all. I also think it is a hardware problem. My
>Coco can't seem to read any 1440-sector floppy disks properly, regardless
>of where they came from. I'm not sure why or how though. I'm not so
>worried about that problem right now though. I'm just happy I was able to
>get access to a working boot disk image using Drivewire. That product has
>really come in handy! My goal right now is to get NitrOS-9 3.2.4 fully
>configured on my hard drive.
>
>
> > 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
> >
>
>Okay, I tried the scripts, but the scripts only create a boot disk that
>enables NitrOS-9 to boot from a floppy. After looking over the scripts,
>it's still not clear to me how to modify them to create a boot disk that
>enables NitrOS-9 to boot from Drive 255 of the RGB-DOS partition of my
>hard drive. I also still haven't figured out how to modify the scripts to
>get the hi-res joystick interface to work. Anyone know? Thanks for your
>help. I'm so excited to have NitrOS-9 3.2.4 actually running!
>
>Fred
>
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