[Coco] OS9/NITROS Primer

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 00:06:42 -0400
Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Richard E. Crislip wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > As you all know, I've been a hanger on for quite a while now. All
> > this time I have devoted myself to the "Dark Side", I.E. MicroSoft
> > Active Directory, teaching it that is. I am now retired and no
> > longer need to devote my day and nights studying and preparing
> > that. I am not knocking it, it has payed my bills, thank you Uncle
> > Bill. The down side is I know how to run apps on OS/Nitros9, but I
> > DO NOT know how to do the most basic thing such as make a boot
> > disk. So my question is, should I read the RS OS9 manual or is
> > there something better for me to study? Way back a long long time
> > ago in a far far away galaxy, I ran cobbler, but if you put a gun
> > to my head, I couldn't tell you why or what I accomplished. So
> > where do I start reading first? TIA
> >
> 
> Richard,
> 
> For a practical example of boot disk creation, you could download one
> of the system disks from
> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/
> and look at the directories NITROS9/6x09Lx/SCRIPTS and
> NITROS9/6x09Lx/BOOTLISTS where x indicates the cpu 6309, 6809 and
> Level1 or Level2.
> There are text files in both directories which can be used to create 
> boot disks. The files are intended to be modified as needed by users
> to create custom boot disks. This will give you specific examples of
> the creation process and you can then go on to reading either the
> OS-9 owner's manual or other books on OS-9 for general discussions of
> the process.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 

EEK!!! My thread has been hijacked already 8-). 

Thanks Robert. I have a NITROS dsk on my SDC and was looking at that
very directory until I made the fatal error of trying to list BootOS9.
Reset was necessary 8-). Anyway I just listed
NITROS9/6309L2/BOOTLISTS/standard.bl... I need to either learn to read
MUCH faster or learn how to stop the scroll 8-). I will look that up
later this morning, time for bed. But thank you very much for getting
me started. 

BTW Another problem I have is the first character is being
lopped off my displays. I am using the RGB2VGA display adapter. I will
change back to Roy's to see if that resolves that problem. Anyway...
Good Night 8-).