[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 Release

Mark Marlette mmarlett at isd.net
Wed May 19 07:31:27 EDT 2004


At 11:02 PM 5/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:

Fred,

Make sure that you have the correct Dskini switches set to reproduce the 
proper disk.

?? Software advice from a hardware guy? :)

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9



>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
>
>
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