[Coco] System gen problem

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Robert Gault wrote:

> Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> I suppose it's worth asking. Has anyone reading this been able to
>> generate a nitros9 boot file that:
>> 
>> (a) Boots from a floppy
>> (b) Uses an attached hard drive as the default disk
>> and
>> (c) Is also able to access DW volumes?
>> 
>
> Here is what I do which is more or less what you want. My Coco3 system 
> runs RGBDOS and is a Ken-Ton hard drive system. I have an OS-9 boot disk 
> on the hard drive. I boot into NitrOS-9 from the "floppy" disk on the 
> hard drive and of course the hard drive is /DD. The os9boot file 
> contains rbdw3, dw3, X0, X1, X2, and X3. It does NOT use the Drivewire 
> clock module as I have a hardware clock on the Coco. I have no problems 
> accessing images mounted in the PC Drivewire server. The Drivewire 
> software is version 3.

<sigh>.. Yes, that's essentially what I'm looking to do.  I am using the 
dw clock module, but intend to switch eventually to the Cloud9 driver when 
I get things running and can install my T^3 SCSI cart.

Steve


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