[Coco] Help with Cloud-9 install -- oops.

[Mark Marlette]

At 9/19/2004 12:32 AM -0500, you wrote:

Al,

Here is the ROOT directory of your distribution.

  Directory of /s5/cloud9/ver030204/6309l2   2004/09/19 08:35
CMDS           SYS             DEFS            sysgo
startup        NITROS9         MODULES         read.me


Let us know how it works out for you.

Thanks,

Mark

>>Normal NitrOS-9 distribution. One root directory MODULES are adding, this 
>>is where SuperDriver's modules sit and/or Drivewire. Special Cloud-9 
>>descriptors are created under the RBF dir of SuperDriver. You will have 
>>to recreate these .dd if you did backup your system... :(
>
>If you give me a list of what DIRS and FILES are in the root directory, I 
>will be fine.  I've already found CMDS, HUH (which now I know is the 
>"MODULES" directory), NITROS9, SYS, and maybe one other.  Not sure if 
>there was an os9boot there, but I found a "startup".
>
>I used to fix my HD regularly with ded, so really all I need to know if 
>what to look for.
>
>Basically, format only kills the ROOT directory, so anything under it is 
>still there and fine -- I just have to remake the entries in root and 
>point them to their File ID sector.  DIRS are easy to find (since all I do 
>is look for entries where ".." points back to the root FID sector), but 
>files alone are not since they have nothing for me to "guess" -- I just 
>have to know what was there and search for it (ie, looking for text I know 
>would be in a startup file, or such).
>
>>Under the NitrOS-9 directory in the SCRIPTS and BOOTLIST directories will 
>>be more Cloud-9 specific scripts and special bootlists. Have those??? I 
>>suspect not. Uggggghhhhh. Let me know.
>
>See above.  Only the root dir is in question ;-)
>
>So, if you could just say:
>
>CMDS
>MODULES
>NITROS9
>SYS
>FOO
>BAR
>startup
>read.me
>
>that's really all I need to know.  Thanks!
>
>                 A
>
>
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