[Coco] Adding SCBBT and T1 the easiest way?

[Bill Pierce]

Kandur (and Gene), why not just "cobbler" a new boot disk after setting things with dmode?
Just format a new disk and...
cobbler /d0
then copy all your files to the new disk. Done deal.
Between ezgen and cobbler, I haven't used os9gen in years. I use ezgen to add and subtract modules from ANY boot I'm working with (L1, L2, or L3) to make a new boot (for me or anyone else) and cobbler when I've just modified some settings in the current boot. The only time I would use os9gen is if I'm building a new boot track and don't have a working boot with that particular boot track set up already. I have an archive of boots for various system configurations for various people I've helped with setting up their boots.
I usually just start out with the closest thing I can find to the target system from disks in the repo or my archive, except when working with emulator boots as their are none in the repo..
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 9:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Adding SCBBT and T1 the easiest way?


On Sunday 07 December 2014 18:52:46 Kandur did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Back in the day, I used to edit/modify SCF and RBF descriptors.
> Now I haven't the foggiest, how to do it.
> My 5.25" drive can read and write these kind of floppies:
> TYP=20, TRK=0028 and TYP=21, TRK=0050
> Realize the second one is not a standard dmode, but it works
> great and holds twice as much data, then the first one.
> This also allow me to use the backup command
> to duplicate a 3.5" floppy on a 5.25" one.
> I'd like to have a descriptor for the second type,
> so I don't have to change it's dmode after every boot.
> 
> Kandur

After you have dmoded the descriptor to the right stuffs, cd to the 
modules/rbf section of the nitros9 build install, and issue a

 "save my_d2.dd d2"

replacing the 2 with the drives proper address of course.

Then edit your nitros9/bootlists/standard.bl by copying it to my.bl, edit 
to use that descriptor instead of the stock one.  Then do the same thing 
in the scripts directory by copying the mb. you are using to mb.mine, and 
edit the os9gen line in mb.mine so it uses the my.bl you just created.  
Run the new mb.mine, direct it to the drive you usually use for a boot 
drive, and make the updated boot disk.

The bootlist name and the script name are totally arbitrary, so if you 
want to name them after the famous Fudpucker's, from Alice to Zumling, (be 
sure and don't forget Elmer or George) it will still work.