[Coco] os-9

[Aaron Wolfe]

Ok, then the procedure would be:

On DW server, turn HDBDOS Mode on, insert source image in drive #4

On coco, insert destination floppy in disk 0 (or 1,2 etc).
Type:

DRIVE OFF
BACKUP 4 to 0

wait a while...

That's it, if I am remembering correctly.

-Aaron


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> The Disk Basic BACKUP command will copy an OS-9 disk okay, so I'd imagine
> that the equivalent HDBDOS command would do the same with no problems.
>
> Art
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I checked the disks at http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
>> No single sided disks for coco 3.  You could likely generate some from
>> the source tree, but maybe you can use double sided and just need to
>> know how to create them?  I wasn't sure from your post.
>>
>> Copying a disk using DriveWire 4 is simple, you just need to do a
>> sector by sector copy from one disk to the other.  In HDBDOS you can
>> do this using the BACKUP command.  I do not know if this would copy an
>> OS9 disk properly, or if there is an equivalent command in NitrOS9..
>> actually i've wondered about that before.  Seems it would an easy
>> enough thing to write if it doesn't already exist... read sector 0,
>> write sector 0, increment, repeat, die on EOF etc.
>>
>> Well maybe that helped, or at least jarred someone's memory.. anybody
>> got an OS9 sector copy tool?
>> -Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I've sold a disk drive to a new coco3 owner and he would like me to send
>> a copy of os9 with it.
>> > I've found the nitros-9 images, but they seem to be double sided.
>> > What images are needed for use with a fd500 setup?
>> > I can use either drivewire or coconet to transfer them to disk using a
>> coco2 or 3.
>> >
>> > Any guidance would be very helpful.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Later,
>> > dabone
>> >
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