[Coco] Booting NitrOS-9 on a CoCo 3

[N8WQ]

Hi Diego,
You are the man! Thanks! I just downloaded the newer version of DSKINI. 
I had a older version. I just formated a CoCo disk using DSKINI and the 
nos96309l2v030209coco3_40d_1.dsk image. NitrOS-9 booted up no problem on 
my CoCo 3 tower! Thanks to my Linux user experience, I feel right at 
home using NitrOS-9. My next project is to get the Microware C compiler 
running. I look forward to making some contributions back to the CoCo 
community soon. Thanks for everyone's help today in getting my boot disk 
running!

Alan Jones

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N8WQ - Canal Winchester, Ohio
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Diego Barizo wrote:

> There is a newer version of DSKINI that supports the extra parameters. 

> I'm going to upload the right one to the site right now.

> The /T40 parameter is the one that tells the program to do a 40 track 

> disk. It would seem that you are getting 80 track disk, and that would 

> be the problem.

>

> Try getting the newer DSKINI from www.nitros9.org in a few minutes.

>

> Diego

>

>

> N8WQ wrote:

>> Hi Darren,

>> Thanks for responding to my question so fast. Yes my CoCo 3 tower has 

>> a 6309 cpu. I am using a Hitachi 63x09E with Cloud-9's "Pro-Tector".

>>

>> So it looks like DSKINI is not formatting my disk properly? I tried 

>> using a 5.25" 360K floppy in my PC but I was getting errors when 

>> executing DSKINI. So I replaced that floppy drive on my PC with a 

>> 5.25" 1.2meg floppy and I can now create 35 track, single sided disks 

>> no problem. Before I forget,  I need to mention that I am using 

>> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 386DX-33 PC that I bought at Goodwill about 4 

>> years ago for $5.00  :)

>>

>> I also noticed that there appears to be some discrepancy between 

>> DSKINI syntax and the DSKINI documentation on the NitrOS-9 site 

>> (http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html#dsk). For example this syntax does 

>> not work on my version of DSKINI:

>>

>> DSKINI /T40 /D B: NOS963~1.DSK

>>

>> "Unable to open specified virtual disk."

>>

>> Here is the Usage that is listed if you type DSKINI by it's self at 

>> the DOS prompt:

>>

>> "Usage: DSKINI [2] [8] [d:] [[path\diskname[.DSK]]

>>                "d:"             destination drive (default A:)

>>                "path"         source directory for virtual disk

>>                "diskname"  name of virtual disk

>>                /2                to write to the second side of the disk

>>                /8                if using an 80-track disk in 1.2Mb 

>> drive

>>

>> At least one parameter must be specified."

>>

>> Where is the "/T" and "/D" parameters coming from?

>>

>> If I type "DSKINI B: NOS963~1.DSK

>> 75 tracks are written but only head 0 is being used. If This image is 

>> double track shouldn't the format alternate between heads 0 and 1?

>>

>> Alan Jones

>>

>

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