[Coco] So, I have this NitrOS-9 disk...

[David Ladd]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>wrote:

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No, there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there.  I can't get images
> written to a double sided floppy unless I can get them onto a machine that
> understands how to write double-sided floppies.  I have Drivewire working
> far enough to restore single-sided images from BASIC, but I haven't booted
> OS-9 with it.  I was hoping to get the double-sided OS-9 disk to boot,
> perhaps load up the DW driver therein, and use that to write the new one.
>  I do have an older (from cocoos9.sourceforge.net) single-sided OS9 image
> running just fine on it, but it doesn't seem to have dmode and I haven't
> figured out how I can even get access to the double-sided disk from there
> to see what may be wrong.  If it were something in the startup file, I
> should be able to just pull it out, but I have no idea precisely how to do
> that yet.  I _might_ be able to take the double-sided NitrOS floppy and
> boot it on the CoCo 3.  Haven't tried yet either.
>

There is another thing you could try as well.
Download the current nightly build for NitrOS-9 L1 for drivewire that is
used with the CoCo1. Then mount it in the drivewire server.  Then on the
CoCo1 with the HDBDOS for DW, try booting NitrOS-9.  If that version of
NitrOS-9 boots then only thing you would need to do is create a floppy
based disk set from the scripts that should be on the image.


>
> Of course, I could just dig up an old PC and fit it with a 5.25" drive to
> write out the images, but that will be a longer-term project.  I was hoping
> there was a quicker way to do it.
>
> Chris
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