[Coco] Booting NitrOS-9 on a CoCo 3

[Boisy Pitre]

Alan,

Glad to hear it was something simple.

Hopefully this kind of good news will give other NitrOS-9 noobs like  
Roger Taylor some hope that they can get NitrOS-9 running on their  
systems.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:06 PM, N8WQ wrote:

> 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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>
> 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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