[Coco] shell in NitrOS-9

[Robert Gault]

Wayne Campbell wrote:
> I guess I was abit vague there. Sorry. I am running NitrOS-9 in the MESS
> emulator. I don't have my old CoCo3 anymore, and don't see getting one
> anytime soon.
>
> I want to be able to boot from the HD image that is being used in the
> emulator. I found that Aasron's disk has a special hd driver called
> EmuDsk. I think it should be able to allow me to boot from the image,
> but I'm not sure
>
> Wayne
>

Yes, you can boot into NirOS-9 from the hard drive image. I made 
available from my site, RGBDOS for emulators. This is essentially the 
same as HDBDOS on real scsi hardware.
This emulator version of RGBDOS is a patch to Disk Basic that makes use 
of part of the hard drive for Basic. You place a NitrOS-9 boot disk on 
any of the Basic "drives" residing on the hard drive image. You can go 
to my site for details or Cloud-9 for details on HDBDOS as there is so 
little difference between the OS. RGBDOS has been included in the VCC 
package as an option.

With this type of boot, you can cobbler NitrOS-9 on a hard drive. You 
need the drivers for virtual floppies on the hard drive. I can supply 
that software.
You would enter  cobbler /v0    for example, and you would be changing 
the os9boot file on say drive 255. Even without this added software, you 
would be able to   cobbler /d0   then from Basic    BACKUP0TO255  and 
get the same effect.