[Coco] NitrOS-9 new snapshot build [WAS: Setting up the /IHdescriptor]

[Bob Devries]

Hello, Tormod.

I have to report that REL_80_50hz and REL_80 are identical (both are 60hz 
AFAIK). They are in the directory NITROS9/6309L2/MODULES/BOOTTRACK

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:47 AM
Subject: [Coco] NitrOS-9 new snapshot build [WAS: Setting up the 
/IHdescriptor]


> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>> No NitrOS-9 nightly builds that I know of. The last one done was by David 
>> Ladd back in Januaury.
>>  We need someone with access that can successfully build the repo that 
>> also knows the cmds for the nightly build (something about a "burst" 
>> cmd?), who can take the time to at least do a weekly build. Even a 
>> monthly build would be better than what we have now.
>> The NitrOS-9 repo hasn't been built regularly for over 4 or 5 years. It's 
>> only being done when someone finally get's sick of getting bad disks.
>
> I built and uploaded a snapshot now: http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
>
> If anything is terribly broken, David's older build is still available
> under http://www.nitros9.org/latest-201301/ but please report any bugs
> or problems! Reports might get lost here on the list so
> http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/bugs/ is the preferred venue.
>
>> I would do it but my cygwin errors, saying it's out of resources (on a 4 
>> gig AMD quadcore??). Also, I don't have upload access (and do not want it 
>> for now).
>
> For information, building took 6 minutes on a Pentium M1.6 with 2GB
> RAM. Note to self and fixme: On a clean hg pull do "mkdir dsks"
> otherwise os9 dies in infinite recursion and buffer overflow.
>
> Regards,
> Tormod
>
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