[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Shell + 2.2a

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	On a loosely related topic, is the eliminator (Frank Hogg Lab st-506
disk thingy) supported in this Nitros-09 thing should I ever decide I
want to
try it (after I figure out a monitor solution for my tre)?

					kevin

John Donaldson wrote:
> 
> Charlie,
>    Yes you can do the same thing with NITROS9.   OOOPS, I just notice
> looking at the BOOTLIST
> that it does not have the BNB harddrive modules, so you will have to add
> those, but if you have
> BNB's hardware clock, there IS a clock module for the BNB hardware clock.
>     As for sysgo_h0 and sysgo_dd, these reside in the root directory of
> the boot disk.
> Print out the BOOTLIST file and you will se what I mean.
> 
> John Donaldson
> 
> Charlie wrote:
> 
> > Excellent. I will play with this tonight. Here is a question. Right
> > now my  OS9 Lev2 boots from /d0 but "switches" over to /h0 as its
> > booting to load  the Shell in the /h0/cmds , the startup file and so
> > on. So the floppy,  just kinda gets it started. Can I setup Nitros9 to
> > be the same way once I  get the B&B drivers working?
> >
> > Also, when you say use sysgo.h0 you mean I must add that to the
> > bootlist  file as well as the B&B file?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:56:06 -0400, John Donaldson
> > <jadonaldson at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If you downloaded the new NITROS9 disks, then look in
> >> modules/6309l2/bootlist and you will
> >> find the bootlist file. It contains the drivers setting for making a
> >> boot disk that includes B&B.
> >> Also don't forget to use sysgo.h0.
> >>
> >> John Donaldson
> >>
> >>
> >> Charlie wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well I made a Nitros9 boto disk, but I can't seem to get my B&B
> >>> hard  disk
> >>> control to work with it. I loaded bbfhdisk.dr and h0.dd but I can't
> >>> access
> >>> /h0.
> >>>
> >>> "John Donaldson" <jadonaldson at charter.net>  wrote
> >>> in message news:40F2B071.6060906 at charter.net...
> >>>
> >>>> Charlie,
> >>>>    Try downloading the files from http://www.nitros9.org/. There files
> >>>> for the COCO1/2,
> >>>> COCO3 with 6809 and COCO3 with 6309. Both of the COCO3 versiosn have
> >>>> SHell 2.2a
> >>>> already installed. You will need the DSKINI.exe file to transfer them
> >>>> from a DSK to a real coco3
> >>>> diskette.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> John Donaldson
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Charlie wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> What can I do to fix the problem? What files were merged? I know most
> >>>>> of  my OS9 system was put together many years ago, and I remember
> >>>>> replacing  many commands with ones from delphi.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't know very much about OS9 but I would love to understand it
> >>>>> better.  Not to mention get everything working with Shell+2.2a :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Charlie
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:15:06 -0700, Ray Watts
> >>>>> <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Charlie wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This weekend I replaced Shell+2.1 with Shell+2.2a on my COCO3 OS9
> >>>>>>> LevII  system. I correctly did the IPATCH to SCF.MN and made a new
> >>>>>>> boot  disk.  When I boot the system to OS9 everything seems fine
> >>>>>>> and  Shell+2.2a seems  to be working.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> However, the 1st thing I tried to do gave me trouble. I get a not
> >>>>>>> enough  RAM error when I try to format a floppy disk. Switching
> >>>>>>> back
> >>>>>>> to  Shell+2.1  everything works fine.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Can anyone help me with this?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Charlie
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Isn't that the notorious case where files merged with Shell+2.1 was
> >>>>>> JUST  below 1024X8-512?  Then when you replaced 2.1 with a larger
> >>>>>> 2.2a you  went over the 8k limit.  Sure sounds like it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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