[Coco] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Re Links Broken or Down

[Robert Gault]

Plt at freemail2.com wrote:
> Let me explain. A friend gave me the harddrive image of nitroos9 a and the boot disk and that works fine and boots up into os9 not rsdos. I like use the 20 mb harddrive because it give me some more storage space.
>
> When I try and boot the system using the same nitroos9 harddrive image file with the boot disk that was provided in the link it displays nitroos9 on the screen and locks up.
>

You really are not explaining your problems very well. Best I can tell from the 
above is that you do not understand the OS-9 boot process. You can either boot 
directly from the hard drive image, in which case you probably do not have an 
OS9Boot file containing the needed modules for inetd to work or you can boot 
from the suggested floppy disk images but will not be able to access your hard 
drive for similar OS9Boot reasons.

It is not going to be possible to transfer any of the floppy disk images 
available in the links given to you to the hard drive image and boot directly 
from the hard drive.

The content of the OS-9 kernel will determine whether you will boot from a 
floppy, a hard drive, or something like Drivewire. The kernel then needs to find 
the location of OS9Boot which is pointed to by DD.BT in the first sector of the 
disk from which you want to boot.

I suggest you forget about the hard drive image for now and just try to boot 
from an appropriate floppy and see if you can get inetd to work. Once you have 
success with the floppy, you can then create a suitable "boot disk" for the hard 
drive so that you can boot directly from the hard drive and also have inetd working.

Robert