[Coco] shell in NitrOS-9

[Brian Blake]

This all sounds easy, but, I think we'll need a 'NitrOS-9 for Dummies' book for me to follow when I'm ready... 

I'll eventually dig into HDD on an emulator (most likely VCC), but, I really want to go HDD on my re-pack CoCo3... All in good time, lol...


Brian



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From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 7:58:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] shell in NitrOS-9



Yes, you can boot into NirOS-9 from the hard drive image. I made available from my site, RGBDOS for emulators. This is essentially the same as HDBDOS on real scsi hardware.
This emulator version of RGBDOS is a patch to Disk Basic that makes use of part of the hard drive for Basic. You place a NitrOS-9 boot disk on any of the Basic "drives" residing on the hard drive image. You can go to my site for details or Cloud-9 for details on HDBDOS as there is so little difference between the OS. RGBDOS has been included in the VCC package as an option.

With this type of boot, you can cobbler NitrOS-9 on a hard drive. You need the drivers for virtual floppies on the hard drive. I can supply that software.
You would enter  cobbler /v0    for example, and you would be changing the os9boot file on say drive 255. Even without this added software, you would be able to   cobbler /d0   then from Basic    BACKUP0TO255  and get the same effect.

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