[Coco] Installing DW4 on Linux mint

[George Ramsower]

Gene, I can't find DWDOS there or anywhere for that matter. Is it 
actually called something else?


On 06/24/2017 08:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 24 June 2017 20:37:48 George Ramsower wrote:
>
>>    DWdos may be a better choice for me. Where do I find it?
> Howdy George;
>
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/>
>
> Green download button.  Its a tar.gz for linux. Unpack it in the /opt
> subdir although its not fussy as long as you know where it is.
>
> But its the nitros9 build that has the modules you'll need to install in
> your os9boot file to make full use of drivewire4.
>
> I'm not sure what assembler is being used to build nitros9 on a linux box
> these days, I think its changed since the last time I built it, it was
> lwasm from lwtools a little over a year ago. A third download to get the
> full kit.  I'm sure one of the guys here has cobbled up a script that
> makes the download and build of all 3 a painless project.  I am
> surprised someone hasn't popped up and posted it.  Inline of course
> since the server does not like attachments.
>
>> On 06/24/2017 09:36 AM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>>> Alternatively, toolshed's "dwdos" is much smaller than hdbdos to
>>> cassette load via cloadm.
>>>
>>> On Jun 24, 2017 9:46 AM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:
>>>>    I had a brain fart when I wrote the previous message.  To get
>>>> Nitros9 onto a disk for the CC3, I need to wire the coco end of the
>>>> cable for the cassette input from the PC audio out. Then I can
>>>> cloadm HDBDOS to initially use DW4 to download Nitros9. Then I will
>>>> be good to go. Several steps to go. Not too bad, really. The main
>>>> important thing is DW. I have to get it onto the coco in order to
>>>> use it.
>>>>
>>>> On 06/24/2017 01:02 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
>>>>> George Ramsower georgera at gvtc.com
>>>>> <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com
>>>>>
>>>>>> ?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Installing%20DW4%20on%20Linux%
>>>>>> 20mint&In-Reply-To=%3C1de590c9-1591-13bc-d25a-6e56b855311b%40gvtc
>>>>>> .com %3E>
>>>>>> Fri Jun 23 21:39:10 EDT 2017
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      I haven't actually tried it on my Coco3 yet. I was thinking
>>>>>> it would not work correctly after all the error messages when I
>>>>>> ran it the first few times after another download. Now I need to
>>>>>> get a regular serial connection going so I can download that
>>>>>> other file for RSDOS that will enable me to use DW4 and download
>>>>>> a Nitros9 for this CC3. Many more steps. I think I have the
>>>>>> wiring on the PC end ready. Now I need to find a way to get an
>>>>>> RS232 to work on that CC3. That will be the toughest thing to
>>>>>> accomplish.
>>>>> Why would that be hard? You don’t need an RS232 pack for
>>>>> Drivewire, it uses the serial port that is built in to the CoCo 3,
>>>>> you just need a cable and a serial port on your Linux Mint server.
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>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett