[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 Release

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On May 18, 2004, at 10:23 PM, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:

> Boisy,
>
> It was really a pleasure to finally meet you at the CocoFest. I had a
> great time. Thanks for all your hard work and advice.

Same here Fred.  Had a great time and enjoyed meeting you.  Wish we 
could have visited more, but I was pretty beat on Saturday night!

> I'm trying to install the latest version of NitrOS9 on my hard drive, 
> so
> far with no luck. I successfully downloaded and unzipped all three
> distribution disks, and it appears that I was able to successfully
> transfer them to 5 1/4" and 3 /12" disks using the latest version of
> dskini.exe without any errors. But when I try to boot using disk 1 or
> read the other two disks however, I have problems:
>
> 1) nos96309l2v030201_ds40_1.dsk:
>
> When I attempt to boot using this disk, this is what appears on the
> screen:
> KREL Boot Kernel
> tb........................................................bKernelP2
> KernelP2 CC3Disk CC3Disk JoyDrv SndDrv WindInt Term W W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6
> W7 PipeMan To1 t*j
>
> and then I get the NITROS9 BOOT FAILED message.

If these are the modules that appear, then something is indeed wrong.  
Missing is RBF, SCF, Clock, and a host of other modules.  It almost 
seems as though part (or one side) of the disk has nothing on it.

> 2) nos96309l2v030201_ds40_2.dsk:
>
> When I attempt to read this disk I get an infinite succession of nested
> NITROS9 and 6309L2 directories with nothing in them. Really strange.
> Nothing else is on the disk. No modules, nothing.

Again, sounds like a bad transfer.

> 3) nos96309l2v030201_ds80.dsk:
>
> I cannot boot from or read this disk. I get an Error 249 - Wrong Type.

This shouldn't happen either.

> So have you seen anything like this? I'm not doing anything strange. I
> followed the instructions for transferring the disk images just as they
> appear on www.nitros9.org website. Any ideas what I should do?
>
Please let us know what system (e.g. Win98) you're doing the transfer 
on, the drive(s) you are using, the setup on your CoCo etc...  
Hindsight, but you should have splurged for the $5 diskette at the 
show...

Another thing you can do: email me the disk images and I'll check them 
out here, but I'm quite sure that they are not the problem -- I highly 
suspect the actual transfer to the physical media.

Boisy