[Coco] Nitros and Drivewire question

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Jim,

You do not need the NitrOS ROM Kit to use DriveWire.  DriveWire comes 
two ROM images that you can burn: one for the CoCo 3 motherboard ROM, 
and the other for the CoCo 1/2 motherboard ROM.  These ROM images 
contain "DriveWire DOS" which is a booter that takes over the CoCo and 
requests sectors $264-$273 from DriveWire drive 0 (much like the DOS 
command does).  DriveWire comes with NitrOS-9 images on the CD-ROM, so 
all you have to do is link the server's drive 0 to one of these images 
and your CoCo can boot instantly into NitrOS-9 each time.

If you can't burn a ROM, a floppy disk is provided with a special 
NitrOS-9 boot track that has the DriveWire booter already on it.  Just 
put the disk in your floppy drive and type DOS and the booter will take 
over and boot NitrOS-9 from DriveWire.

Once in NitrOS-9, your /dd drive is the DriveWire drive 0 disk.  You 
can then hook another disk image to drive 1 (/x1) and work from there.
--
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Aug 28, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Jim Cox wrote:

> OK, before anyone corrects me, I just re-read the details for 
> Drivewire, and Low and Belold, it does what just I was suggesting, 
> except I need the Nitros ROM kit.
> OK, next question, is there anyone out there who is booting a CoCo-3 
> with a Nitros ROM and using a PC's resources via Drivewire?  If so, I 
> would like to hear from you.
> I am thinking of setting up a Windows 98 box to be strictly a CoCo 
> development system and use it's resources (HDD and CD-ROM) for a 
> CoCo-3.  Any thoughts?
>
> -Jim
>
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:15:18 -0700
>  "Jim Cox" <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>> Admittedly I have not been following the Nitros traffic on the list 
>> for a long time since I have yet to start using it, so please excuse 
>> me if this is question has been asked before.
>>
>> Is it possible to install Nitros from a PC to a CoCo using the 
>> Drivewire?  The reason why I ask is that it would be nice to use the 
>> PC's resources to either download Nitros to the PC then install from 
>> the PC to the CoCo or intall off of a CD ROM on the PC to the CoCo.
>>
>> It would be nice to have a boot floppy for the CoCo which would synch 
>> up the CoCo with the PC via drivewire then complete the install using 
>> the PC's resources.  I hope I'm clear enough with my explanation and 
>> I hope this isn't too dumb a question.  Cheers!
>>
>> -Jim --
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