[Coco] Howto for installing nitros9?

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Sat Oct 11 17:26:42 EDT 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 16:27 -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> 
> >> So can I assume you can boot OS9 Level II, but not NitrOS-9?
> >> And where'd you get these 40 track SS bootable images?
> >
> > Yes, OS9 L2 boots fine.  The nitros9 image I was using came from 
> > http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9.html.
> >
> > Now that I know how to get them onto a physical disk, I'll try the images 
> > from sourceforge.
> 
> After a bit of grief writing the images under Linux, I was able to boot a 
> DSDD NitrOS-9 image :-).
> 
> Next question:  What environment is the NitrOS-9 source intended to be 
> built under?  The makefile calls an executable called simply 'os9' all 
> over the place and references a cross-assembler called 'mamou' (?).
> 

Toolshed.  Check sourceforge.
At some point I'd like to make NitrOS-9 buildable until NitrOS-9 again.
The NitrOS-9 project proper has no plans for this.
 
C.





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