[Coco] DriveWire on the Raspberry Pi in five easy steps.

[Allen Huffman]

> On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:30 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is going to be a good nice thing to have :D

For advanced users, it's very quick and simple to get going. I do expect the majority of users won't be familiar with Linux command line and using "apt-get" to install files and updates.

Someone (Frank P?) suggested making an automation script to do everything. I would like to do that, but I have to learn how it works. I would love to see a menu installer for all of these things.

> I myself am hoping to test the performance on the new Raspberry Pi 2 Model
> B.  Hoping it will increase the performance some :D  Java is such a beast
> :P  Muahahah

Yes, the Pi works great from all my testing, but man, it takes forever to boot. I turn on my CoCo and it's at an OS-9 prompt in 3 seconds via CoCoSDC, but I have to wait a minute for the DW drives to be available. The Pi 2 boots 18 seconds faster, and there are some fast boot schemes to leave out things we aren't using which could help.

BUT ... ultimately I'd like to get the Raspberry Pi port of OS-9/ARM to do this. It boots in seconds. However, the embedded Java is long gone and was $$$$ so this would take porting the server to C.

		-- Allen