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

[Brian Blake]

The date on the one I just d/l'd from Vcc's webpage is 5/1/2010.



On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Possibly, I just reinstalled VCC and the working directory was where I did
> a manual install of VCC and have many old files.
>
> I will try a new clean directory.
>
> ERR, the date on the vhd zip I used was 3/23/2010. I missed that!
>
> Sorry.
>
>
> 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 6:03 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC
>
>
>  Stephen wrote:
>>
>>  I am coming to the conclusion that disk 255 is not prepared properly
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, I downloaded the VHD image recently, and it boots just fine using
>> DOS255.
>>
>> Is it possible that your file is corrupted?
>>
>> 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 10:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC
>>
>>
>>  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
>>>>
>>>
>
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