[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Aaron Wolfe]

If you're familiar with unix and tools like make, it's actually much
easier to build a boot disk by checking out the NitrOS9 CVS and using
the "Toolshed" coco development tools to assemble and create your own
NitrOS9 disks.  Changing the modules on a boot disk is as simple as
tweaking a makefile and "make dsk".   When testing different things on
different systems, I have to make several different OS9 disks quite
often.  If I had to use os9gen each time it would be really, really
tedious.  A modern PC can build all of NitrOS9 in a few seconds.

The Toolshed can also be used on Windows.  It works pretty much just
like it does in linux if you use the cygwin environment.  I think you
can also run the tools natively as windows programs but I haven't done
that myself.  Toolshed is here if you're interested:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/

-Aaron

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I've backed up a little bit.  My current thinking tells me the easiest
> way to get a slimmed down "OS-9" that works well with Double-sided drives is
> going to be to take the NitrOS9 and strip out the bootstrap modules I don't
> need.  I've been toying around with saving the original bootstrap modules
> and then using OS9Gen to rebuild the bootstrap leaving out some of the
> modules.  So far, I've only gotten a NitrOS9 copyright screen but it goes no
> further.
>
> Here was the last list of original bootstrap modules...
>
> REL             KRN             KRNP2
> INIT            BOOT            IOMAN
> RBF             RB1773  D0
> D1              D2              DD
> SCF             VTIO            COVDG
> TERM            SCBBP           P
> SCBBT           T1              PIPEMAN
> PIPER           PIPE            CLOCK
> CLOCK2  SYSGO           SHELL
>
>
>
> Latest OS9Gen I used included...
> RB1773
> D0
> VTIO
> TERM
> IOMAN
> RBF
> SCF
> SYSGO
> CLOCK
> CLOCK2
> SCBBT
> SCBBP
> COVDG
>
> This resulted in bootup to NitrOS9 logo...went no further
>
> Which modules are a must to include for proper bootup?!
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Chad
>
>
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