[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Aaron Wolfe]

Ok.. I think it's clear we need good guides on how to make and modify
boot disks if folks are going to be able to use DW very easily.

I'm trying to classify the ways someone might want to use the drivers,
and then I will put together a guide on how to do each one.  Having no
peripherals myself, I've always just booted from and exclusively used
DriveWire as my only storage, so forgive me if I've missed a scenario.
 If anybody has successfully completed one of these methods and wants
to post or send me a description of the steps, that would sure help as
again I don't have hardware here to test anything.

So.. my list of every way DW could be used:

1.  Floppy disk systems:
1a. Want to boot from floppy, /dd is /d0, just have /x disks available
1b. Want to boot from DW, /dd is /x0, /d0-3 are available

2. Hard disk systems
2a. Want to boot from floppy, /dd is /H0, have /x available
2b. Want to boot directly from HD, /dd is /H0, /d0-3 and /x are
available (is this possible?)
2c. Want to boot from DW, /dd is /H0, /d0-3 and /x are available

I'm assuming any HD user would want /DD=/H0.  Is this a safe bet?  Are
there configurations I've missed?  I want to document each likely
configuration but don't mind if we miss some very strange situations.

thanks for any input.
-Aaron







On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Bruce W. Calkins
<brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <
>
>> So is there a step by step checklist for those of us that are somewhat
>> challenged at figuring the software side out?
>>
> ===============================================
> which procedure were you planning to do?  I'll try to put together a
> "how-to" with step by step instructions, we could maybe use such a
> thing in our documentation.
>
> ==============================================
>
>
> I guess my first step is to get a CoCo 3 with floppy drives set up with a 32
> bit Ubuntu machine as the DW server.  From there I would want to make .DSK
> images of my CoCo disks.
>
>
>
> Currently most of my stuff is on Windows XP systems, but I am migrating to
> Linux, so it makes since to me to use Linux for this application.  I can
> move all of my CoCo .DSK collection to a USB drive to move them to the Linux
> machine to consolidate the collection.
>
>
>
> Personally I have never gotten further that Jeff V's emulator on a Windows
> 98 installation set to boot to DOS.  I have yet to get an emulator running
> on an XP machine.
>
>
>
> Bruce W.
>
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