[Coco] Trouble with nitros9

[Mark Marlette]

At 02:38 PM 7/4/2005, you wrote:

Frank,

Well I'm glad you have it going and the prompt issue is a branch from Boisy 
and mine's point of view. The prompt_plus is a utility from the shell+ 
distribution that the current NitrOS-9's prompt doesn't do things as the 
old. In the past they had the same name and in about your time frame I was 
in transition to the new structure. Email me...I would have sent it to ya. :)

Regards,

Mark



>Fortunatly I didn't have to go as far as formatting the nitros9 partition
>of the cf card. The filesystem was intact although a number of files were
>trashed. Fortunatly my Unix admin instincts kicked in and the first thing
>I did after I got my ls-120 drive was to use "dsave" to copy the directory
>structure onto a 128meg floppy. It made fixing the filesystem trivial!! :-)
>
>The problem I had was fixing hdb-dos drive 255. The whole time I was able
>boot my machine from a backup of the superdriver disk I have. From there I
>followed the read.me that you supplied. unfortunatly it didn't go exactly
>as easily as running the mb_hdb_dd script. Unfortunatly the script makes
>use of "prompt_plus" which I couldn't find anywhere on any of the disks
>I have including the nitros9 distro disks. A little work with "edit" changed
>the "prompt_plus" to "prompted" and then all worked.
>
>
>On the positive side I now have a collection of bootable disks. :-)
>
>Frank
>
>
>On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:51:26AM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> > At 08:50 PM 7/3/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > Frank,
> >
> > The specific information you need is on your invoice. HDB-DOS's 256 
> virtual
> > drives and a NitrOS-9 partition of ~127MB if IIRC. There is left over 
> space
> > on the CF for another NitrOS-9 partition. I like to keep the cluster size
> > to one. Some older utilities like B&B assumed a cluster of one and POOF
> > goes the integrity of the drive.
> >
> > With out a floppy boot, as per the instructions in /dd/startup. This is
> > going to be a big task, not impossible. Get a bootable disk, add the
> > descriptors and drivers in(see below). If you make make your descriptors,
> > make sure that you shut off the auto query bit in the descriptors on the
> > partitioned drive. The descriptors by default query the drives, it doesn't
> > assume a partition is present.
> >
> > This is why it is so important to get a floppy boot BEFORE you have
> > problems.
> >
> > If you can get the descriptors set up and get the backup from the 
> LS-120 to
> > restore the CF. You will then restore the scripts that were used to create
> > the system. Also in this backup you will find the descriptors so that you
> > don't even need to create them. Use the bootlists and you will see what 
> and
> > where they are located.
> >
> > Hopefully this helps.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > >A while ago I got a superide interface along with a CF card from Cloud 9.
> > >At the time I bought it Mark was nice enough to load hdb dos and 
> nitros9 on
> > >the cf card along with a script to allow me to choose with OS I wanted to
> > >boot into.
> > >
> > >Unfortunatly a few weeks ago I managed to muck up the nitros9 
> installation
> > >to
> > >the point were it wouldn't boot anymore. Since I figured I'd need a floppy
> > >drive to do anything about it I put the machine and card away and waited
> > >for
> > >the drive I bought on ebay to arrive. That happened friday and saturday I
> > >decided
> > >that I would see what I could do to reinstall or fix the installation on
> > >the card so
> > >that it would boot. All the data I was interested in keeping had already
> > >been
> > >stored on a ls-120 disk so there's no need to save anything on the card.
> > >
> > >The way it was originally installed the 256meg cf card was partitioned
> > >with half
> > >being allocated for hdb-dos and 256 virtual disks and the second half was
> > >formated
> > >for nitros9. Loading nitros9 was done by means of a specially configured
> > >"disk 255".
> > >
> > >Although I had a gut feeling that I should leave the virtual hdb-dos 255
> > >alone I cleared
> > >it with a dskinit. My problem now is creating a "boot floppy" to backup
> > >into disk 255
> > >so that I can boot nitros9. I tried following the instructions included
> > >with the documentaion
> > >but had no luck. Has anyone been able to do what I'm trying to 
> accomplish?
> > >The instructions
> > >on how to do this seems to be geared for people with a lot more knowledge
> > >about all of
> > >this then I have. I seem to be missing a handfull of steps. :-(
> > >
> > >Frank
> > >
> > >
> > >
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