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

[Robert Emery]

You guys make OS-9 sound sooooo fun!

<Homer>Oh, by the way, that was sarcasm."</Homer>
<Marge>Well, duh!</Marge>

j/k, cheers,
Bob

--- Charlie <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com> 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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