[Coco] Howto for installing nitros9?

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Fri Oct 10 09:02:13 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 07:41 -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> 
> At this point, I'd settle for simply being able to boot it!  I downloaded 
> a SSDD (180kB) 40-track image, copied it to a "real" floppy from my SVD 
> (disk simulator attached to floppy controller) and tried to boot it.  It 
> displays the startup screen, grinds away a bit and halts with the drive 
> access LED on and the disk spinning.  Never gets any further.
> 

Are you using a multi-pak?  In the category of "things you should just
know" is that you have to stick the disk controller in slot 4.  The code
makes that assumption..

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?

C.





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