[Coco] Adding SCBBT and T1 the easiest way?

[Kandur]

Sunday, December 7, 2014, 6:57:20 PM, you wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2014 18:52:46 Kandur did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Back in the day, I used to edit/modify SCF and RBF descriptors.
>> Now I haven't the foggiest, how to do it.
>> My 5.25" drive can read and write these kind of floppies:
>> TYP=20, TRK=0028 and TYP=21, TRK=0050
>> Realize the second one is not a standard dmode, but it works
>> great and holds twice as much data, then the first one.
>> This also allow me to use the backup command
>> to duplicate a 3.5" floppy on a 5.25" one.
>> I'd like to have a descriptor for the second type,
>> so I don't have to change it's dmode after every boot.

>> Kandur

> After you have dmoded the descriptor to the right stuffs, cd to the 
> modules/rbf section of the nitros9 build install, and issue a

>  "save my_d2.dd d2"

> replacing the 2 with the drives proper address of course.

Thanks Gene. This sounds like a workaround, instead of
using a proper 'descriptor editor', but who cares if it works?!

> Then edit your nitros9/bootlists/standard.bl by copying it to my.bl, edit 
> to use that descriptor instead of the stock one.  Then do the same thing 
> in the scripts directory by copying the mb. you are using to mb.mine, and 
> edit the os9gen line in mb.mine so it uses the my.bl you just created.  
> Run the new mb.mine, direct it to the drive you usually use for a boot 
> drive, and make the updated boot disk.

Done this part recently for adding the SCBBT and T1 modules.

> The bootlist name and the script name are totally arbitrary, so if you 
> want to name them after the famous Fudpucker's, from Alice to Zumling, (be 
> sure and don't forget Elmer or George) it will still work.

Many thanks for the quick and detailed instructions.
<SNIP>

Kandur