[Coco] save to disk

[Robert Hermanek]

Attached is the DSK image that you would mount on your drivewire server, 
then copy to a real disk using the instructions below...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk


> That's the problem: I don't have a floppy disk with the HDBDOS image. I've
> loaded using cloadm, and now I'm trying to save it to disk, but it needs 
> the
> machine location of the start, the end, and the execution point. And I 
> don't
> have those.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Robert Hermanek
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:29 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk
>
> I think the idea is:
>
> 1)  Get HDB-DOS for drivewire running on your coco any way, in your case 
> via
>
> the cassette and cloadm
> 2)  Have the drivewire server running on your PC
> 3)  Mount a DSK file in drivewire server that contains a complete image of 
> a
>
> HDB-DOS floppy disk.  Mount the DSK as a drive 1
> 4)  From the coco, access the DSK image using commands such as
>
> DRIVE OFF 0
>    this tells hdb-dos to access physical drive 0 on coco
>
> BACKUP 1 to 0
>
> If the DSK image is mounted as drive 1, then this will copy the contents 
> of
> the DSK to a physical disk inserted in drive 0.
>
> You may need to DSKINI 0 if it is unformatted.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk
>
>
>> Yeah, but it's asking for all the machine language addresses, start,
>> finish,
>> and exec. I don't know those.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Mike Rowen
>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:12 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk
>>
>> If you boot HDBDOS via the cassette port, you can then mount the dsk in 
>> DW
>> and copy it to an actual floppy. From then on you could boot it from
>> floppy
>> instead of the cassette cable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Mike
>>
>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 10:48 AM, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I got HDBDOSC3 loaded on my Coco3, but I cannot get it saved to disk.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Help, please, before I have a  power hiccup
>>>
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