[Coco] Nitros9 problems

[Michael Furman]

Bill, Alan:

The nitros9 3.2.8 version you downloaded from nitros9.org(sourceforge)  
is built from the default configuration (boot_1773_6ms, ddd0_40d,  
d0_40d, etc.) and doesn't have Drivewire3 in it.  To use this image  
you'd have to write it to a floppy on another computer.  I have  
successfully downloaded the 6809 image and written the 80 track double  
sided image to a 3.5" floppy and booted it up fine on real hardware  
and on MESS (after renaming to .os9)

The drivewire3-enabled images are supplied by Cloud9 and are  
downloaded from here: DriveWire 3. These images use a special boot_dw3  
boot module that loads the rest of the disk from the drivewire  
server.   I got these disks to work on my real coco when I had HDB-DOS  
running.  I wrote this image to a floppy and tried it without HDB-DOS  
(DECB 2.1) and it just went straight to OK prompt as Bill has explained.

If you want a disk that boots off of a normal floppy but still has  
access to the drivewire3 /x0 /x1 /x2 /x3 devices  someone will have to  
build this for you.  I can create this disk if someone wants it, it  
only takes a few minutes.

On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Bill wrote:

> I downloaded the latest .zip of NitrOS9 files, but none of them will  
> work.
> I'm sure I'm not doing something right, but maybe someone can tell  
> me what.
>
> I downloaded nos96809l2v030208coco3.zip from
> http://www.nitros9.org/downloads.html, and unzipped it, tried to use  
> each
> one in turn in DriveWire3, but when I get everything set up and  
> ready to
> boot, I type 'DOS' and all I get is 'OK'.
>
> Ideas? Thanks.
>
>
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