[Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

this line in my posting was my attempt to convey that I had done that:

>> I can do a "DIR 255" and get a file listing as well as "DIR 254".

I am coming to the conclusion that disk 255 is not prepared properly.

This supplied vhd should be pulled IMHO.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC


> Hi Stephen,
>
> In VCC, you need to configure for using RGB DOS. Pull down the Cartridge 
> menu, and select FD502 Config, and click the button beside RGBDOS.
>
> This will allow you to boot from the HD image with DOS255.
>
> HTH,
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 1:21 AM
> Subject: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to mount one of my old OS-9 L-II boot disks and copy some CMDS to 
>> a new .dsk file using the VCC emulator.
>>
>> My old floppy boot disk will of course not boot so I have been trying to 
>> boot the supplied "Preinstalled Hard disk image Nitros9 Ver 3.2.8".
>>
>> The documentation is out of date, the instructions to just type "DOS 255" 
>> do not work, "OK" is returned which is not OK.
>>
>> I can do a "DIR 255" and get a file listing as well as "DIR 254".
>>
>> There is a screenshot on the VCC Screenshots page so it must work.
>>
>> http://vcc.20x.cc/screenshots.html
>>
>> I need detailed instructions including what configuration changes to 
>> make, .dsk images to  insert in addition to the "Nitros9.vhd" hard drive 
>> image and so on.
>>
>> And what to type if it is different from "DOS 255"
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> SHF