[Coco] Disk sizes was make case sensitive?

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron,
Yes, the FD drivers are a part of most boots. The point is, you can not simply "download" a nitros9 boot disk and have a finished working system. You will ALWAYS have to make a boot. And for the "average" user, that's no small task.
I've been working on an automated bootdisk creation program, for nitros9 and I've really began to see why there's so much confussion in making a boot. In developing this software, I've built a "dependacy tree" which displays all modules (known) and what modules they depend on. It's a bowl of spagetti with no sauce and no ends... just continuous noodles. 
I'm trying to include all the known "normal" drivers so the user can create a bootdisk from scratch just by selecting the system (6809, 6309, L1, L2, etc), components of their system and media type (dw, floppy, hd, becker etc).
I hope to be adding a way to not only create the boot but to install it on an hdbdos partion right from OS9 (thanks to Robert Gault).
This software was born from the frustration of making boots for others and also as a request by Nick Marentes for the same reasons.
If this piece of software ever comes together, it will end all the boot confuusion and make OS9 much easier to deal with...... Of course I'll eventually mke it a DW4Man module as well :-)

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Disk sizes was make case sensitive?


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Again, I never used nitros9 and don't know it limitations, but: I
> understand RAM is limited so the DW boot disk does not have FD drivers
> by default. But isn't it possible to boot from DW, then load FD
> drivers dynamically and use the floppy drives and DW at the same time?
> In that case a disk image with FD drivers (mountable through DW) would
> solve this. Or make a boot disk with both DW and FD support. If this
> is technically possible it should be added to the disk image build.
>

Actually, I'm pretty sure the FD drivers are included on all the
DriveWire NitrOS9 boot disks.. unless something has changed?

-Aaron

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