[Coco] Re: NitrOS9 Disks

[Charlie]

Your welcome.

Too bad its not the disks that is wrong with your coco and Nitros9 :(

Charlie

"Mannequin*" <mannslists at invigorated.org> wrote in 
message news:20040927201522.500b3c85.mannslists at invigorated.org...
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:01:32 -0400
Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Mannequin* wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just recieved the NitrOS9 disks that Charlie sent me. I'm sorry to say
> > that I get the same problems with them on my Coco 3 as I did when I made 
> > my
> > own disks. :(

...

> Which disk in the sets are you trying to use? There are three per set,
> two are 40 track double sided disk and one 80 track double sided disk.
>
> If you are trying to read them from an existing OS-9 system, make sure
> that your descriptor for the drive matches the above data. If you are
> trying to boot one of the disks, it should work if you have a double
> sided drive and the image was correctly converted to a real floppy.
>
> Supply specific details of the errors you are getting and what your have
> tried.

Well, it should be NitrOS9 6809 Level II, Disk 1 and 2, 40 track double 
sided.
Also, the drive and controller I'm loading it from is Tandy's FD-502. 
Charlie
said that he tested it before shipping it out, and it worked.

If you remember, or if you can look in the archive, I was having a problem 
with
booting it in to NitrOS9. It always failed. (You might as well look at that
thread.) Let me see if I can find my original posting...

> From: Mannequin* <mannslists at invigorated.org>
> To: cocomedia <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] 6809 NitrOS-9 Problems
> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:38:06 -0500
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just downloaded the disk images for the 6809 NitrOS-9 Level II. After I
> transfered them to disk and tried to run it on my stock 6809 Coco III 
> w/512k
> of RAM, it failed.
>
> Here's my screen (without the "*"'s):
> *****************************************************************************
> ***
>
> KREL Boot Krn
> tb...........................................................................
> ..............................................bKrnP2 KrnP2 rb1773 rb1 773
> JotDrv SndDrv WindInt VDGInt Term W Ä VDGInt t*j
>
>
>                                  NITROS9 BOOT
>
>                                     FAILED
>
>
>
> *****************************************************************************
> ***
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> -M.

-M.

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