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

[Chad H]

Can you write .DSK images at all?

I can make you a "single-sided" .DSK image that will boot with double-side
support, if you can  use it.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of David Ladd
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 9:51 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] So, I have this NitrOS-9 disk...

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Smith
<csmith at wolfram.com>wrote:

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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.
>

There is another thing you could try as well.
Download the current nightly build for NitrOS-9 L1 for drivewire that is
used with the CoCo1. Then mount it in the drivewire server.  Then on the
CoCo1 with the HDBDOS for DW, try booting NitrOS-9.  If that version of
NitrOS-9 boots then only thing you would need to do is create a floppy based
disk set from the scripts that should be on the image.


>
> 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.
>
> Chris
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