[Coco] ok i am learning but not fast enough
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Thu Feb 18 11:50:28 EST 2016
On Thursday 18 February 2016 10:45:30 Tormod Volden wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Richard Hawk wrote:
> > I been pouring over the internet and reading manuals and trying. I
> > came up with I have to boot in to hdb-dos 1.2 I need to purchace a
> > new rom I think I saw there is hdb-dos 1.4 out there. So if anybody
> > knows where I can purchase that i would appreciate it.
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> If you don't want to use HDB-DOS, but just want to boot NitrOS-9, you
> can alternatively burn a DWDOS ROM which will boot directly into
> NitrOS-9, loading everything (including kernel and os9boot) over
> DriveWire. Instead of a ROM, you can also load DWDOS from tape or DECB
> floppy. In other words, you don't need a NitrOS-9 boot floppy if you
> have DriveWire.
>
> DWDOS can be found at http://toolshed.sf.net
>
> It is not a "DOS", but the equivalent of the RSDOS "DOS" command,
> working over DriveWire.
>
> Tormod
I found it and built it. Assuming I can get it moved to hdb-dos disk 0,
how do I go about adding it to the boot menu I am presented with?
hdbdos is 1.1a iirc. And, which of the dw4_cc3.* files do I need? make
apparently made them all asI now have quite a list:
gene at coyote:/opt/toolshed/dwdos$ ls -l
total 228
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10205 Apr 6 2015 dw3dos.asm
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 450 Feb 18 11:07 dw3doscc1.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4608 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_cc1.trk
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 494 Feb 18 11:07 dw3doscc2.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4608 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_cc2.trk
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 561 Feb 18 11:07 dw3doscc3.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4608 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_cc3.trk
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8192 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_dsk_cc1.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8192 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_dsk_cc2.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8192 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_dsk_cc3.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 16384 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_mb_cc1.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 16384 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_mb_cc2.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 32768 Feb 18 11:07 dw3dos_mb_cc3.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 552 Feb 18 11:07 dw4doscc2.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4608 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_cc2.trk
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 619 Feb 18 11:07 dw4doscc3.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4608 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_cc3.trk
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8192 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_dsk_cc2.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8192 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_dsk_cc3.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 16384 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_mb_cc2.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 32768 Feb 18 11:07 dw4dos_mb_cc3.rom
Thanks Tormod.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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