[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 August 2007, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 04:56 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote:
>>  The "problem" with booting from a ROM as Roger asks rather than a
>> hard drive, is that you are locked into at least a specific kernel.
>> That means cobbler and os9gen have lost some of their usefulness.
>> It is important to be able to make changes to the core
>> OS-9/NitrOS-9 modules at will as needed without needing to burn a new
>> EPROM. Using a CF card more easily reloaded with new code should be just
>> as good as booting from hard drive directly.
>>
>>  At the moment the size of a typical NitrOS-9 OS9Boot file plus
>> kernel is about 12.5K. It would certainly fit into a ROM. However,
>> if you plan to include the CMDS directory as well, forget it!
>>  It is not enough to load just the OS9Boot file to run OS-9. You
>> also need all of the commands and software. Where would they be
>> without some type of drive system unless you use a very large CF card?
>
>My 42-meg CoCo HD was never close to filling up and it has
>everything.  Wouldn't an 8mb or 16mb CF card be ideal?

Unforch, I haven't seen one that small in quite a while.  When I went looking 
for a cf card to use for dd-wrt, the smallest I could find was 256 megs & 
that was 6 months ago, probably a gigabyte by now.

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