[Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 September 2013 15:49:18 Christopher Smith did opine:

> Did you use the LINK program that's floating around for use with HDBDOS,
> or did you do it manually?  How much of a pain is it?
> 
> Chris

Once one understands the syntax, its not a pain at all. OTOH, _once_ this 
has been done, and because there are many ways to skin that cat, I have a 
competing os9 program that accomplishes the same task. With (I hope) a more 
explanatory instruction file.

Its on my web page, see an older message from me for the dyndns address in 
the sig, but that is subject to change/expiry and will show up in my sig 
once the new registration has been accomplished.

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 6:40:53 PM
> > Subject: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*
> > 
> > Ok, someone told me this couldn't be done.  Perhaps they didn't
> > understand
> > what I was referring to..
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > *	I wanted to be able to turn on my CoCo WITHOUT a DriveWire ROM,
> > type
> > DOS and it 'BOOTSTRAP' into NitrOS-9 on the DriveWire 4 server.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I've managed to create a real Floppy that does just that.  DriveWire
> > ROM not
> > required!  Essientially it is a DriveWire 4 NitrOS-9 floppy that
> > starts the
> > bootup sequence from the real disk but somewhere along the way it
> > 'switches'
> > to the /DD image housed on the DriveWire 4 server and seamlessly
> > continues.
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
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Cheers, Gene
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