[Coco] Installing DW4 on Linux mint

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 24 June 2017 20:37:48 George Ramsower wrote:

>   DWdos may be a better choice for me. Where do I find it?

Howdy George;

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/>

Green download button.  Its a tar.gz for linux. Unpack it in the /opt 
subdir although its not fussy as long as you know where it is.

But its the nitros9 build that has the modules you'll need to install in 
your os9boot file to make full use of drivewire4.

I'm not sure what assembler is being used to build nitros9 on a linux box 
these days, I think its changed since the last time I built it, it was 
lwasm from lwtools a little over a year ago. A third download to get the 
full kit.  I'm sure one of the guys here has cobbled up a script that 
makes the download and build of all 3 a painless project.  I am 
surprised someone hasn't popped up and posted it.  Inline of course 
since the server does not like attachments.

> On 06/24/2017 09:36 AM, Brett Gordon wrote:
> > Alternatively, toolshed's "dwdos" is much smaller than hdbdos to
> > cassette load via cloadm.
> >
> > On Jun 24, 2017 9:46 AM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:
> >>   I had a brain fart when I wrote the previous message.  To get
> >> Nitros9 onto a disk for the CC3, I need to wire the coco end of the
> >> cable for the cassette input from the PC audio out. Then I can
> >> cloadm HDBDOS to initially use DW4 to download Nitros9. Then I will
> >> be good to go. Several steps to go. Not too bad, really. The main
> >> important thing is DW. I have to get it onto the coco in order to
> >> use it.
> >>
> >> On 06/24/2017 01:02 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> >>> George Ramsower georgera at gvtc.com 
> >>> <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com
> >>>
> >>>> ?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Installing%20DW4%20on%20Linux%
> >>>> 20mint&In-Reply-To=%3C1de590c9-1591-13bc-d25a-6e56b855311b%40gvtc
> >>>>.com %3E>
> >>>> Fri Jun 23 21:39:10 EDT 2017
> >>>>
> >>>>     I haven't actually tried it on my Coco3 yet. I was thinking
> >>>> it would not work correctly after all the error messages when I
> >>>> ran it the first few times after another download. Now I need to
> >>>> get a regular serial connection going so I can download that
> >>>> other file for RSDOS that will enable me to use DW4 and download
> >>>> a Nitros9 for this CC3. Many more steps. I think I have the
> >>>> wiring on the PC end ready. Now I need to find a way to get an
> >>>> RS232 to work on that CC3. That will be the toughest thing to
> >>>> accomplish.
> >>>
> >>> Why would that be hard? You don’t need an RS232 pack for
> >>> Drivewire, it uses the serial port that is built in to the CoCo 3,
> >>> you just need a cable and a serial port on your Linux Mint server.
> >>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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