[Coco] Nitros9 on Keil

[Mark McDougall]

On 13/09/2010 11:05 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

> The disks released by the NitrOS-9 project are not necessarily full size
> disks. They are only as large as required to hold the necessary files. This
> causes problems with all emulators other than MESS.

Yes. I fixed the disk by padding the extra bytes and still Keil wouldn't 
boot the disk.

> Use the MESS imgtool or wimgtool to create two new 40 track double sided
> disks in the .dmk OS-9 format. Mount the NitrOS-9 distribution disk and one
> of the new disks in MESS, run OS-9, and BACKUP the distribution disk to the
> new .dsk disk.
> The new disk should then boot into OS-9 in the Keil emulator. It did for me.

LittleJohn's father (John) has done this for me already!

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

BTW Do you know if there's any way of getting Nitros9 onto a hard drive 
partition without using the SuperDriver? Or is the SuperDriver basically IDE 
support for Nitros9?

Regards,

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