[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.07 Release

[Diego Barizo]

OK, the issue seems to be because I didn't CHX/CMDS after swapping disks 
1 and 2. This time I CHXed and it works...
Up to the point where the script calls format. The commands are in 
/DD/NITROS9/6809L2/CMDS. It would be nice to have the script CHX to that 
dir, or use absolute paths to the commands there...

Diego


Robert Gault wrote:
> Diego Barizo wrote:
>> Boisy, I've been trying to run the mb script from the 40t disk from
>> 6809L2, and it freezes trying to read the disk. Might this be a
>> corrupted disk issue? It works OK from the 80t. I tried copying the
>> script from one disk to the other, but still freezes.
>> I just tried typing the commands from the mb script, and it's the prompt
>> command the one that seems to fail. Strange, since I don't get the
>> messages from echo that come before. Using the format command fails
>> also. Maybe some of the executables in the disk got misplaced from
>> another distribution (6309)?
>> PS: I have just tried this in emulators. Anyone else had this or a 
>> similar problem?
>>
>
> I have just tested this using MESS with the 6809L2 40_d1 in drive0, 
> fresh os9 disk in /d1, and 6809L2 40_d2 in /d2. I have been able to 
> make perfect boot disks of both single sided 40 track and double sided 
> 40 track types.
>
> There should not be any problems on real hardware but there can be 
> with emulators. On real hardware, the success of the format of the new 
> disk depends on your drive hardware single or dual side. On an 
> emulator, the success of the format can depend on the type of image 
> you pre-installed.
> Format will take the descriptor info as the default which in the case 
> of the NitrOS-9 distribution is 2 sides 40 track. If you mounted a 1 
> side 35 or 40 track or a 2 sided 35 track image, format will fail.
>
> So if you are trying to create a boot disk for an RGBDOS hard drive, 
> you must use dmode first to customize the /d1 specs.
>
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