[Coco] shell in NitrOS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 22 January 2010, Brian Blake wrote:
>This all sounds easy, but, I think we'll need a 'NitrOS-9 for Dummies' book
> for me to follow when I'm ready...

Now that is a book I'd buy in a heartbeat if it was as detailed as Darlings 
Inside OS9.  It should start there and bring us really up to date.

>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...
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>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
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>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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