[Coco] New version of SDC-DOS available

[S Klammer]

Thank-you Darren!

sk
On Dec 2, 2016 1:41 PM, "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 2, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Allen…I don’t like having the separate boot and hard disk images
> so I will look into your solution.
>
> When I get my CoCo set back up (hopefully over this winter), I will write
> a custom utility that will automate all of this. I just have to decide if I
> want to write it in assemble, C or BASIC09. Maybe I'll do it in all three
> and write a companion article about that.
>
> The basic idea is:
>
> 1. You have to have the track 34 sectors on the hard drive .DSK available,
> since that's were the boot ("DOS" loader) goes. If you already have data
> using those sectors, you can't do it, BUT you can make a fresh, blank image
> and make it bootable, then copy all your stuff to it.
>
> 2. You copy the kernel track from an existing boot disk to the hard drive
> disk, and mark those sectors as "used" in the Disk Allocation Map.
>
> 3. You copy os9boot to the disk image, then edit a few bytes in the first
> Logical Sector 0 of the hard drive to tell it where os9boot begins and how
> big it is.
>
> That's really it. But it's tricky if you haven't worked with the dEd disk
> editor before. I have screen shots and such in my article, and a BASIC09
> program to copy the DOS boot track over (but you have to edit LSN0 and the
> DAM manually in dEd, which is what I want to automate).
>
>                 -- Allen
>
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