[Coco] Trouble with nitros9

Tue Jul 5 09:32:32 EDT 2005

Thanks for your help. your comments gave me the starting point I 
needed to solve the problem. The prompt_plus thing wasn't a big enough of an
issue that it would have slowed me down for long. Had the available prompt
not worked I was going to strip down the script to the actual commands
needed. Gone would have been the testing, prompting, comments and safety
checks. After spending a number of hours trying to get the mb script to
do something useful (found in the documentation that came with superdriver)
I was far to close to having something working with the mb_hdb_dd to let 
a problem with the prompt command stop me!! :-)

Frank

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:21:26AM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> At 02:38 PM 7/4/2005, you wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Well I'm glad you have it going and the prompt issue is a branch from Boisy 
> and mine's point of view. The prompt_plus is a utility from the shell+ 
> distribution that the current NitrOS-9's prompt doesn't do things as the 
> old. In the past they had the same name and in about your time frame I was 
> in transition to the new structure. Email me...I would have sent it to ya. 
> :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> >Fortunatly I didn't have to go as far as formatting the nitros9 partition
> >of the cf card. The filesystem was intact although a number of files were
> >trashed. Fortunatly my Unix admin instincts kicked in and the first thing
> >I did after I got my ls-120 drive was to use "dsave" to copy the directory
> >structure onto a 128meg floppy. It made fixing the filesystem trivial!! :-)
> >
> >The problem I had was fixing hdb-dos drive 255. The whole time I was able
> >boot my machine from a backup of the superdriver disk I have. From there I
> >followed the read.me that you supplied. unfortunatly it didn't go exactly
> >as easily as running the mb_hdb_dd script. Unfortunatly the script makes
> >use of "prompt_plus" which I couldn't find anywhere on any of the disks
> >I have including the nitros9 distro disks. A little work with "edit" 
> >changed
> >the "prompt_plus" to "prompted" and then all worked.
> >
> >
> >On the positive side I now have a collection of bootable disks. :-)
> >
> >Frank
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:51:26AM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> >> At 08:50 PM 7/3/2005, you wrote:
> >>
> >> Frank,
> >>
> >> The specific information you need is on your invoice. HDB-DOS's 256 
> >virtual
> >> drives and a NitrOS-9 partition of ~127MB if IIRC. There is left over 
> >space
> >> on the CF for another NitrOS-9 partition. I like to keep the cluster size
> >> to one. Some older utilities like B&B assumed a cluster of one and POOF
> >> goes the integrity of the drive.
> >>
> >> With out a floppy boot, as per the instructions in /dd/startup. This is
> >> going to be a big task, not impossible. Get a bootable disk, add the
> >> descriptors and drivers in(see below). If you make make your descriptors,
> >> make sure that you shut off the auto query bit in the descriptors on the
> >> partitioned drive. The descriptors by default query the drives, it 
> >doesn't
> >> assume a partition is present.
> >>
> >> This is why it is so important to get a floppy boot BEFORE you have
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> If you can get the descriptors set up and get the backup from the 
> >LS-120 to
> >> restore the CF. You will then restore the scripts that were used to 
> >create
> >> the system. Also in this backup you will find the descriptors so that you
> >> don't even need to create them. Use the bootlists and you will see what 
> >and
> >> where they are located.
> >>
> >> Hopefully this helps.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >A while ago I got a superide interface along with a CF card from Cloud 
> >9.
> >> >At the time I bought it Mark was nice enough to load hdb dos and 
> >nitros9 on
> >> >the cf card along with a script to allow me to choose with OS I wanted 
> >to
> >> >boot into.
> >> >
> >> >Unfortunatly a few weeks ago I managed to muck up the nitros9 
> >installation
> >> >to
> >> >the point were it wouldn't boot anymore. Since I figured I'd need a 
> >floppy
> >> >drive to do anything about it I put the machine and card away and waited
> >> >for
> >> >the drive I bought on ebay to arrive. That happened friday and saturday 
> >I
> >> >decided
> >> >that I would see what I could do to reinstall or fix the installation on
> >> >the card so
> >> >that it would boot. All the data I was interested in keeping had already
> >> >been
> >> >stored on a ls-120 disk so there's no need to save anything on the card.
> >> >
> >> >The way it was originally installed the 256meg cf card was partitioned
> >> >with half
> >> >being allocated for hdb-dos and 256 virtual disks and the second half 
> >was
> >> >formated
> >> >for nitros9. Loading nitros9 was done by means of a specially configured
> >> >"disk 255".
> >> >
> >> >Although I had a gut feeling that I should leave the virtual hdb-dos 255
> >> >alone I cleared
> >> >it with a dskinit. My problem now is creating a "boot floppy" to backup
> >> >into disk 255
> >> >so that I can boot nitros9. I tried following the instructions included
> >> >with the documentaion
> >> >but had no luck. Has anyone been able to do what I'm trying to 
> >accomplish?
> >> >The instructions
> >> >on how to do this seems to be geared for people with a lot more 
> >knowledge
> >> >about all of
> >> >this then I have. I seem to be missing a handfull of steps. :-(
> >> >
> >> >Frank
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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