[Coco] I've got DriveWire 4 installed

[Wayne Campbell]

Thanks, Robert. That's done, so now how do I access my harddisk image? I
did a mdir and see that /h0 and emudsk are not there. I'm guessing this
means I have to build a custom boot?

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Wayne Campbell wrote:
>
>> I finally got DW4 installed and VCC with the becker is connecting. All I
>> need to do now is set up the boot system for it. I know this has been
>> covered extensively in this list, so I'm not asking for help ... yet. I
>> noticed that the DW wiki link on the coco wiki page (
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.
>> php?title=Main_Page)
>> is reporting page not found. Can someone point me to the DriveWire docs
>> page?
>>
>> I know I need to make a new boot using the HDBDOS image, but I may need
>> help. My current setup in an older NitrOS-9 disk and sets DD and DD/CMDS
>> on
>> my harddisk image, which is entirely OS-9 formatted. I am not sure how to
>> set up the new boot, so I need to know where the docs are that will walk
>> me
>> through this procedure.
>>
>> Thanks for the assist. BTW, I installed mIRC and went to the #coco-chat
>> channel on freenode. It was empty and no one is there. Is the channel
>> defunct?
>>
>>
> Wayne,
>
> Go to
> https://nitros9.sourceforge.io/snapshot/
> and download the nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk. Mount that disk on
> DW4 drive0 and set the VCC DOS for a Becker HDBDOS ROM.
>
> Of course you could just use nos96309l2v030300coco3.dsk, mount it in VCC
> floppy drive0, and use RGBDOS. NitrOS-9 would run but it would not have DW4
> access.
>
> Robert
>
>
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