[Coco] NitrOS-9 boot configuration tool

[Nick Marentes]

On 9/11/2014 3:24 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> Heh.. this is something else that Bill and I had planned for NitrOS9 and never got to. We were going to have the user making the bootfile pick out the device descriptors they needed (this is where the database part would come in… to show which version of /d0 one was picking for example: Floppy, no Halt Disto floppy, no halt Sardis floppy, etc.)), but it would use the device descriptor itself to figure out which driver and file manager was required for each, since the names of those is stored in the descriptor already anyways (and used by the OS itself).
> Of course, there are “fixed” ones that every normal boot would need (RBF, SCF, IOMAN, etc.) that would always automatically be put in (maybe an option for “customized” versions).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>

Is it possible to write a program on the PC to build the NitOS-9 boot 
image(dsk)?

All the require drivers and modules would be collected in a folder on 
the PC hard disk and a program listing everything that the user simply 
"tick's a box" on the drivers/modules he wants?

The program would generate a DSK file with a NitrOS-9 boot image all 
configured and this can be run on an emulator or used by Drivewire, SDC etc.

That way users can easily and quickly create custom boot disks whenever 
needed.

Nick