[Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC

[Bob Devries]

Hi Stephen,

In VCC, you need to configure for using RGB DOS. Pull down the Cartridge 
menu, and select FD502 Config, and click the button beside RGBDOS.

This will allow you to boot from the HD image with DOS255.

HTH,
Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 1:21 AM
Subject: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC


> Hi,
>
> I need to mount one of my old OS-9 L-II boot disks and copy some CMDS to a 
> new .dsk file using the VCC emulator.
>
> My old floppy boot disk will of course not boot so I have been trying to 
> boot the supplied "Preinstalled Hard disk image Nitros9 Ver 3.2.8".
>
> The documentation is out of date, the instructions to just type "DOS 255" 
> do not work, "OK" is returned which is not OK.
>
> I can do a "DIR 255" and get a file listing as well as "DIR 254".
>
> There is a screenshot on the VCC Screenshots page so it must work.
>
> http://vcc.20x.cc/screenshots.html
>
> I need detailed instructions including what configuration changes to make, 
> .dsk images to  insert in addition to the "Nitros9.vhd" hard drive image 
> and so on.
>
> And what to type if it is different from "DOS 255"
>
> TIA
>
> SHF
>
>
>
>
>
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