[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Shell + 2.2a

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	On a loosely related topic, is the eliminator (Frank Hogg Lab st-506
disk thingy) supported in this Nitros-09 thing should I ever decide I
want to
try it (after I figure out a monitor solution for my tre)?

					kevin

John Donaldson wrote:

> 

> Charlie,

>    Yes you can do the same thing with NITROS9.   OOOPS, I just notice

> looking at the BOOTLIST

> that it does not have the BNB harddrive modules, so you will have to add

> those, but if you have

> BNB's hardware clock, there IS a clock module for the BNB hardware clock.

>     As for sysgo_h0 and sysgo_dd, these reside in the root directory of

> the boot disk.

> Print out the BOOTLIST file and you will se what I mean.

> 

> John Donaldson

> 

> Charlie wrote:

> 

> > Excellent. I will play with this tonight. Here is a question. Right

> > now my  OS9 Lev2 boots from /d0 but "switches" over to /h0 as its

> > booting to load  the Shell in the /h0/cmds , the startup file and so

> > on. So the floppy,  just kinda gets it started. Can I setup Nitros9 to

> > be the same way once I  get the B&B drivers working?

> >

> > Also, when you say use sysgo.h0 you mean I must add that to the

> > bootlist  file as well as the B&B file?

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > Charlie

> >

> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:56:06 -0400, John Donaldson

> > <jadonaldson at charter.net> wrote:

> >

> >> If you downloaded the new NITROS9 disks, then look in

> >> modules/6309l2/bootlist and you will

> >> find the bootlist file. It contains the drivers setting for making a

> >> boot disk that includes B&B.

> >> Also don't forget to use sysgo.h0.

> >>

> >> John Donaldson

> >>

> >>

> >> Charlie wrote:

> >>

> >>> Well I made a Nitros9 boto disk, but I can't seem to get my B&B

> >>> hard  disk

> >>> control to work with it. I loaded bbfhdisk.dr and h0.dd but I can't

> >>> access

> >>> /h0.

> >>>

> >>> "John Donaldson" <jadonaldson at charter.net>  wrote

> >>> in message news:40F2B071.6060906 at charter.net...

> >>>

> >>>> Charlie,

> >>>>    Try downloading the files from http://www.nitros9.org/. There files

> >>>> for the COCO1/2,

> >>>> COCO3 with 6809 and COCO3 with 6309. Both of the COCO3 versiosn have

> >>>> SHell 2.2a

> >>>> already installed. You will need the DSKINI.exe file to transfer them

> >>>> from a DSK to a real coco3

> >>>> diskette.

> >>>>

> >>>>

> >>>> John Donaldson

> >>>>

> >>>>

> >>>> Charlie wrote:

> >>>>

> >>>>

> >>>>> What can I do to fix the problem? What files were merged? I know most

> >>>>> of  my OS9 system was put together many years ago, and I remember

> >>>>> replacing  many commands with ones from delphi.

> >>>>>

> >>>>> I don't know very much about OS9 but I would love to understand it

> >>>>> better.  Not to mention get everything working with Shell+2.2a :)

> >>>>>

> >>>>> Thanks.

> >>>>>

> >>>>> Charlie

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:15:06 -0700, Ray Watts

> >>>>> <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>> Charlie wrote:

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>>> This weekend I replaced Shell+2.1 with Shell+2.2a on my COCO3 OS9

> >>>>>>> LevII  system. I correctly did the IPATCH to SCF.MN and made a new

> >>>>>>> boot  disk.  When I boot the system to OS9 everything seems fine

> >>>>>>> and  Shell+2.2a seems  to be working.

> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>>> However, the 1st thing I tried to do gave me trouble. I get a not

> >>>>>>> enough  RAM error when I try to format a floppy disk. Switching

> >>>>>>> back

> >>>>>>> to  Shell+2.1  everything works fine.

> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>>> Can anyone help me with this?

> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>>> Charlie

> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>> Isn't that the notorious case where files merged with Shell+2.1 was

> >>>>>> JUST  below 1024X8-512?  Then when you replaced 2.1 with a larger

> >>>>>> 2.2a you  went over the 8k limit.  Sure sounds like it.

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

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