[Coco] Shell and Applications in OS9Boot?
Joel Ewy
jcewy at swbell.net
Mon Jan 11 11:57:51 EST 2010
Joel Ewy wrote:
> I'm trying to make a bootable slideshow disk that will run in 128K.
> I'm trying to pare the boot file down to the bare essentials. Several
> questions to that end:
>
> 1. Do I need the pipe driver and descriptor (assuming pipes are not
> used in a shell script)?
> 2. Can I include the shell and application program in the bootlist to
> reduce memory fragmentation? I've tried this out, but the boot
> process hangs. 3. Do I need to change sysgo? It has a hardcoded path
> to /dd/cmds/shell -- is this causing a problem because the shell is
> already loaded with the boot modules? Or am I likely having a problem
> with something else that I left out of the boot list?
>
> JCE
>
I should add that I am using edited versions of the NitrOS-9 mb and
bootlist scripts, and sysgo and grfdrv are present and accounted for.
JCE
>
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