[Coco] Howto for installing nitros9?

[Christopher Hawks]

Steven Hirsch said the following on 10/11/2008 03:27 PM:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> 

>>> So can I assume you can boot OS9 Level II, but not NitrOS-9?

>>> And where'd you get these 40 track SS bootable images?

>>

>> Yes, OS9 L2 boots fine.  The nitros9 image I was using came from 

>> http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9.html.

>>

>> Now that I know how to get them onto a physical disk, I'll try the 

>> images from sourceforge.

> 

> After a bit of grief writing the images under Linux, I was able to boot 

> a DSDD NitrOS-9 image :-).

> 

> Next question:  What environment is the NitrOS-9 source intended to be 

> built under?  The makefile calls an executable called simply 'os9' all 

> over the place and references a cross-assembler called 'mamou' (?).

> 

> Perhaps it's there somewhere, but I could not locate anything specific 

> about the build tools.

> 

> I need to setup for this since the B&B disk drivers are apparently only 

> provided in source form.


Steven:

	All the utilities you need are in toolshed, also available from sourceforge. 
Builds on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

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Christopher R. Hawks
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