[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Create NitrOS9 L1 boot disk for Dragon with FD-502?

[Boisy Pitre]

Just to clarify:  what I sent Chen was a 3.2.7 development version of  
NitrOS-9 for the Tano.  A new directory structure for the NitrOS-9  
project was devised which allows different "ports" of NitrOS-9.   
There are currently 4 ports for Level 1:

coco
d64
dalpha
tano

The Tano port is specifically for the Dragon with a Tandy compatible  
disk controller.  The d64 port is for a Dragon using a "Dragon  
compatible" disk controller.

The fruits of this new directory structure and the new ports will be  
evident in the next release of NitrOS-9.
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On Sep 24, 2006, at 2:28 PM, drag0n1969 wrote:

> Boisy Pitre sent me the image of a working boot disk.
> I finally have NitrOS9 booting up on my Dragon!
> Thanks, Boisy!
> Chen
>
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "drag0n1969" <chen.herzog at ...>
> wrote:
>>
>> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Boisy Pitre wrote:
>>>> Yes, that is correct.  When creating the boot, you need to use
> the
>>>> dragon-compatible os9gen which will put the kernel track at
> track 0,
>>>> sector 3.
>>
>> It now appears to me that the _Dragon_ NitrOS9 disk I have, may
> contain
>> the CoCo os9gen/cobbler/format commands rather than the Dragon
> commands.
>>
>> Boisy, can you fix the Dragon download link at
>> http://www.nitros9.org/Downloads.html? (current link is broken)so
> that
>> I can verify this with the latest NitrOS9 version.
>>
>>>> You're attempting to do this under MESS with a version of NitrOS-
> 9?
>>>> Perhaps a detailed listing of the steps and commands you use
> would
>>>> help in debugging this.
>>
>> Here what I'm doing (I've tried many options, but this should be a
>> short quick check):
>> Using MESS, emulating Coco2:
>> Drive 0: NitrOS9L1 for CoCo
>> Drive 1: NitrOS9L1 for Dragon
>> Drive 2: Create empty VDK dragon disk
>>
>> Boot NitrOS9 on Coco2.
>> Chx /d1/cmds *move to dragon commands
>> chd /d1/cmds
>> format /d2 *(should format a dragon disk)
>> cobbler /d2
>>
>> use VCOPY to copy the VDK image to a real 3.5" floppy.
>>
>> IIRC, as a quick test, this should have produced a dragon bootable
> disk
>> (with coco controller) - but with the wrong keyboard mapping.
>>
>> In practice, the Dragon doesn't seem to recognize this as being a
>> bootable disk at all (probably due to wrong verson of command in
> my
>> NitrOS9 disks).
>>
>> Chen
>>
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