[Coco] Weird errors(DSK images.. NOT!!)

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:27, Mike Pepe wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I followed the linux instructions on the nitros9 web page today, and
>> made 2 disks in a row that worked.  I ought to write that on the
>> calendar...
>
>So did I. Doesn't work. Never has. You want an account on my FC4 or FC5
>box and see if you can make it go?
>
>Must be something specific to FC. I think it worked back in the RH8 days.
>
This is an FC2 box.  Do you have the ENV stuff set accordingly?

>> Yes, but first you have to have a working serial port on the coco, and
>> to my amazement, the bootfile that made those .dsk images didn't put a
>> serial descriptor or driver of any kind in the .dsk.  So one of the
>> first things I gotta do is transport known good drivers to the 2nd
>> disks modules dir, and figure out howto edit my.bl to incorporate them.
>>  If that works, then I'll build yet another disk with the tc^3 scsi
>> drivers & descriptors  in it.
>
>Well, I think that I didn't make myself clear on that.
>
>What's the point of transferring a nitros9 image to a CoCo that's
>already running nitros9?
>
>I'm thinking of the old CoCo enthusiast who's retrieved the CoCo 3 from
>the attic and wants to fire it up again. Probably doesn't have nitros9
>to play with. Certainly that individual might find it annoying that the
>first step to create a nitros9 disk would be "step 1: find a computer
>and install linux on it"
>
>A program that could be loaded on the CoCo either via cassette emulation
>(maybe an mp3 that could be played with a sound card) and then something
>on the x86 side to serially transmit the disk image would be a lot
> easier.
>
>Just a thought on that matter.

Once the dsk image is on a coco-os9 disk, then it can rebuild the boot disk 
on the coco.  But to build the whole cvs checkout does take more 
horsepower to do it in a reasonable time frame.  On this linux box, it 
took about 5 or 6 minutes to build the whole thing.  This is an athlon 
xp2800 running at 2GHZ & a gig of ram to play in.  Given that I can 
remember it taking about 15 to 20 minutes to build rz/sz 3.36 on the coco, 
that job all done on the coco would probably take hours.  Yes, plural.

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