[Coco] Running os9gen on nitros9 6809L2 on a 128k coco3

[Mark Marlette]

Robert,

Vaguely recall this issue but I **believe** it had to do with 
something with the fragmentation. I 'm pretty sure this has been 
fixed and should be documented in the current source....

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9



At 2/13/2009 07:18 AM, you wrote:
>Michael Furman wrote:
>>On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>
>>>Michael Furman wrote:
>>>>I am trying to create a new nitros9 boot disk that has rs232 pak 
>>>>drivers in  it.  When I ran the mb script it got a bunch of errors.
>>>>I ran each command manually .  The first fatal error that seems 
>>>>to be encountered is a 207 (memory full) error when running 
>>>>os9gen.  Both of my coco3's are 128k.  Is there any way to work 
>>>>around this?  I tried random #nnK parameters without success.
>>>>If  there's no easy workaround then I suppose I can see if I can 
>>>>get the nitros9 cvs that I pulled down earlier today to work on 
>>>>my linux box, i think i have actually run the make file to create 
>>>>boot disks before...
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>>>NitrOS-9 Level2 will run on a 128k Coco3 although 512K would be 
>>>much better. If you are getting 207 errors, then you probably have 
>>>or are trying to put too many modules in the os9boot file.
>>>
>>>It would help to know exactly what you are doing. Are you using a 
>>>disk downloaded from Sourceforge to run a script? If so, then you 
>>>know that NitrOS-9 runs on a 128K Coco3. Are you using some other 
>>>version of OS-9 and if so which?
>>
>>I have a Nitros9 6809 L2 version 3.02.06 disk that I download from 
>>sourceforge and made some time ago.  I started with the standard.bl 
>>module list that came on the disk, uncommented sc6551 and t2_sc6551 
>>and tried feeding this to os9gen.  No other changes were 
>>made.   Upon further inspection there are probably some modules I 
>>can remove for this experiment so I can go try that and see if it 
>>gets any farther.
>
>I've been running some tests with Nitros9 6809 L2 version 3.02.06 
>and it will not create new boot disks with 128K memory. In fact you 
>seem to be in a Catch-22 situation.
>This version will create new boot disks with 512K memory but seems 
>to even have problems formatting disks with 128K. That means the 
>os9boot file as distributed is too large but you can't create a new 
>os9boot file or a new boot disk because there is not enough memory.
>
>Michael, I'll take some time today to try and create an image with a 
>smaller os9boot file and memory profile so that you will be able to 
>create new boot disks with 128K.
>Can I assume that n6il at ocs.net is a valid e-mail address?
>
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