[Coco] So, I have this NitrOS-9 disk...

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Ladd" <drencor at gamepixel.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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>> Well at this point anything is possible.
>> Have you tried to download the current nightly 3.2.9 NitrOS-9 L1 40T
>> DSDD
>> images to real floppy?
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> No, there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there.  I can't get images written to a double sided floppy unless I can get them onto a machine that understands how to write double-sided floppies.  I have Drivewire working far enough to restore single-sided images from BASIC, but I haven't booted OS-9 with it.  I was hoping to get the double-sided OS-9 disk to boot, perhaps load up the DW driver therein, and use that to write the new one.  I do have an older (from cocoos9.sourceforge.net) single-sided OS9 image running just fine on it, but it doesn't seem to have dmode and I haven't figured out how I can even get access to the double-sided disk from there to see what may be wrong.  If it were something in the startup file, I should be able to just pull it out, but I have no idea precisely how to do that yet.  I _might_ be able to take the double-sided NitrOS floppy and boot it on the CoCo 3.  Haven't tried yet either.
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> Of course, I could just dig up an old PC and fit it with a 5.25" drive to write out the images, but that will be a longer-term project.  I was hoping there was a quicker way to do it.
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> Chris
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You may find it easier to use a modern NitrOS9 disk.  You can boot it
over DW.  I don't recall whether the fdc driver and everything you
need for writing double sided floppies is built into the stock DW
disks, but it would be easier to add that to a modern DW disk than to
add DW to an old OS9 disk (in fact that may not even be possible).