[Coco] NitrOS9 $?

[Chuck Youse]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:00 -0700, Mike 0rtloff wrote:
> Everything below this first paragraph is by way of explanation, the 
> main question now (after 3 different 360k drives, all sans warrantee 
> of course, died or DOA'ed) is how much would whoever charge for a 
> couple bootable NitrOS9 system disks, set up to do whatever it takes 
> to speak to DriveWire, one on a 35tSS, & one 40tDS?
> 
> I've tried a bunch of different variations on creating a NitrOS9 
> bootdisk =on= the CoCo via DriveWire.
> 
> I can mount the DSK image, but backing up that image to a real floppy 
> ON a CoCo (even those formatted under OS/9 L2, 35t, SS) fails to 
> produce a bootable disk.
> 
> Do I need to use the Convert_disk routine described on Mr Boyles' 
> site even tho this all occurs on a real CoCo?
> 
> I notice that ALL the DSK images boot fine under VCC, am I stuck 
> using the MS/AMD clone to create bootdisks using the FDrawcmd.sys & a 
> FD on the clone? Sheesh - FIRST I gotta find a 360 that does more'n format  8^/
> 
> =M0=

I'd be more than happy to help; unfortunately I don't have a license for
DriveWire so I'm not sure I can legally be of assistance ...

Grr..
C.