[Coco] New trick for nitros9 users

[gene heskett]

On Monday, January 10, 2011 09:16:51 pm gene heskett did opine:

> On Monday, January 10, 2011 08:49:41 pm Mike Rowen did opine:
> > Just a question. I'm trying to make sure I understand your trick. You
> > used minicom to xfer your dsk file to /dd first?
> 
There go my ancient fingers again, that should have been rz, not oz below.

> Yes, by running oz on the coco from the minicom screen, and then feeding
> sz from the minicom sesson.
> 
> > Then you copied from /dd to /s1, then used ded to update things? Is
> > that
> 
> correct?
> 
> Yes, 'ded filename.dsk'.  The first sector ded reads is os9's Logical
> Sector Number 0, aka lsn0, just as if you had issued a 'ded /dx@' to
> look at the raw disk.  The first 3 bytes are DD.TOT, which for that
> size of image should have been $000b40, not the $008000 I found there. 
> So e for edit, and change those 1st 3 bytes to 000B40, hit enter to
> exit the edit mode, then a 'w' and a confirming 'y'.  Done, q, y, and
> you are back to the shell prompt.
> 
> > I'm not
> > setup to do this myself, but I want to learn here. :) Thanks.
> 
> All you need is a copy of ded, the latest version from the cvs on
> sourceforge.
> 
> [...]


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