[Coco] Question about Hard Drive Image for NitrOS9...

[Steve Batson]

I didn't even think about needing to mount drives, that's what I get for looking at it and sending messages off when I'm tired and not thinking.. :)
Since the disks in the HD Image File show empty when looking at them with RS-DOS, I suspect I'd be mounting empty drives in NitrOS9 which is fine for putting stuff on, but wouldn't have done me a lot of good. I spend a little more time getting familiar with the OS and then download some OS9 software to copy over and try out.
Thanks.

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From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 3:49 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Question about Hard Drive Image for NitrOS9... 

Hi,

NitrOS-9 has two directories, type "PWD" and PXD.

The working directory is "/DD" to start and can be changed with "CHD 
/DD" or whatever directory you wish.

The other directory PXD is one of the places that the shell looks for 
programs.

"DIR -E /DD/CMDS" will list the current programs, type "TMODE PAU=1" to 
pause the screen.

Beyond that, NitrOS-9 is a rich OS with many commands and capabilities.

"/D0", "/D1" are the floppy drives, "/D2" can be added but was missed by the 
VHD creator, as was "/P", the printer.

You must mount a .dsk for "/D0", /D1" to show anything.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Batson" 
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Question about Hard Drive Image for NitrOS9...

I'm using VCC as well. Here's what's it set for so for. Again, DOS255 starts 
up NitrOS9 fine.
- MPI Slots:
4 - FD-5023 - Hard Drive + Cloud9 RTC2 - Orchastra 901 - Empty
I've got the RGB DOS setting in the emulator. I've also got the emulator set 
for 8 Meg of RAM and 6309 for the CPU. I didn't mess with the other 
settings. I don't see anything on the other drives, but I get free space 
showing if I do a DIR x on the drives, so I know the space is there. I'm not 
having success listing contents of the empty drives in NitrOS9, so I don't 
know if there's anything on those drives that RGB DOS can't see or not.
when I used the pwd command, it's returning /dd as the drive. I thought it 
was drive numbers, at least that's what I see in the OS-9 documentation I'm 
looking through.The default drive is obviously set to the NitrOS9 drive 
since I can see it's commands and I get a directory listing if I do DIR 
there.
What am I missing?

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From: "Luis Fernández" 
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:58 PM
To: "COCO" 
Subject: Re: [Coco] Question about Hard Drive Image for NitrOS9...

Hi
I use the VCC Emulator
In cartridge select the HD Drive 0 and set the virtual disk

In MPI Select 3
You can also select 4 and FD-502 Config, select RGB Two
Type Dir 1, to Dir254
Dir or Dir 0 is Empty and DIR 255 Is Nitros9 Boot

Type DOS 255 for Nitros9
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> From: steve at batsonphotography.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:05:22 -0700
> Subject: [Coco] Question about Hard Drive Image for NitrOS9...
>
> Sorry for the stupid question, but I have no experience with OS9 or CoCo
> Hard Drives or Hard Drive images on the emulators.
> Does anyone know if there's any software on the HD image that is 
> configured
> with NitrOS9? I can't recall where I downloaded it, but it was loaded and
> configured and I can start up NitrOS9 using the DOS255 command. It boots 
> up
> and I can see the various files and can run commands, get help, etc.
> What I haven't figure out yet, how to see if there's anything else on the
> image that I can run besides the OS stuff. Also, where can I download OS9
> software and how can I get it into the HD image?
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Steve

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