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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Fresh download and it worked right away. ;o) ;( :(;-(*)

The Movie I am watching is "unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood.

Thanks for the help.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting the supplied NitrOS-9 HDD on VCC


> Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> 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
>
> Steven,
>
> The VCC site seems to be down so I can't check the .vhd disk supplied on 
> the site. There is probably something wrong in the documentation as to the 
> location of the boot disk.
> I suggest that you do a DIR250TO255 and see what results. You should 
> either get a message on one of these directories that it is an OS-9 boot 
> or will get a scrambled directory typical of an OS-9 disk.
>
> Once found just try DOS# where # is the disk you found.
>
> Robert
>
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