[Coco] NitrOS-9 EOU (Ease of Use) Beta 5 released

[mpacan at flutterball.com]

   Kevin,
   What might be even better is if you could just make a copy (zip) of
   your entire SD card, with the Nitros9 EOU and autoboot files already
   created, and this could then just be potentially saved to the Color
   Computer Archive site, so anyone could just download it and place it on
   a SD, then it would really be an Ease of Use autobooting edition.  Just
   a thought, I would try it.
   On May 15, 2020 5:01 PM, Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org> wrote:

     Sorry, my steps got kinda mangled because I had HTML email enabled

     - copy EOU_USER.VHD and 68SDC.VHD (or 63SDC.VHD for a 6309 CPU) to
     the
       root of your SD card
     - create a text file called STARTUP.CFG in the root of your SD card
       with the following lines:
     0=68SDC.VHD  (or0=63SDC.VHD for 6309 CPU)
     1=EOU_USER.VHD
     - insert the SD card inyour CoCoSDC and power on the CoCo- enter
     DRIVES
       to verify both disk images are mounted
     - enter RENAME "AUTO.BAS" TO "AUTOEXEC.BAS"
     - power off and back on your CoCo and you should boot directly into
       NitrOS9

     On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 16:56 -0400, Kevin Becker wrote:
     > I decided to try out the autoexec functionality today and set up a
     > dedicated SD card to autoboot right into NitrOS9 with the data VHD
     > automounted as well.  This is a really cool feature and works
     > great.  It really changes the "feel" of booting up my CoCo to have
     it
     > go right into a more powerful OS.
     > I'd offer a little feedback for the beginner's documentation.  The
     > doc
     > states that you can automount the disk images and rename the basic
     > program to autoexec.bas but as a beginner, it took me a little
     > googling
     > to actually make that happen.  It'd be nice to have a little
     section
     > that calls this feature out more directly, because it is cool, and
     > lists the steps.
     > - copy EOU_USER.VHD and 68SDC.VHD (or 63SDC.VHD for a 6309 CPU) to
     > the
     > root of your SD card- create a text file called STARTUP.CFG in the
     > root
     > of your SD card with the following lines: 0=68SDC.VHD  (or
     > 0=63SDC.VHD for 6309 CPU) 1=EOU_USER.VHD- insert the SD card in
     > your CoCoSDC and power on the CoCo- enter DRIVES to verify both
     disk
     > images are mounted- enter RENAME "AUTO.BAS" TO "AUTOEXEC.BAS"-
     power
     > off and back on your CoCo and you should boot directly into
     NitrOS9
     >

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