[Coco] Problem with dw command

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:03:58 AM Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> It's a good idea to use one of the premade stock NitrOS9 disks or to
> build your own from the current NitrOS9 source.  There are many bug
> fixes in many parts of the latest NitrOS9 release and depending on how
> old a system you're shoehorning things into, they might not be fixed
> on your system, potentially leading to all kinds of strange and hard
> to track down issues. If you must update an existing disk, it would be
> best to update everything, not just stick currently DW modules into an
> old system (I don't mean to assume this is what happened in this case,
> just general advice)

Along this same line of thinking, each time I build a new pull, I have 
been mounting the various images in dw, and dsaveing the contents of each 
images nitros9/architecture to my own nitros9/6309L2|6809l2 (or L3 as the 
case might be) and could easily add two more subdirs for the L1 stuffs as 
the drive is a gigabyte drive.

A question arises however when I do this dsave operation from the 
generated sdc.dsk.  Am I in danger of overwriting an existing driver or 
filemanager from the sdc image that isn't compatible when doing a non-sdc 
build?  The thing in my alleged mind seems to be that having a completely 
separate subdir and tree just for the sdc stuff is getting to be ungainly.

So can I just dsave -r it to the 6309L2 tree?

I have the sdc plugged into slot 1, but of course its invisible to nitros9 
without its drivers & descriptors.  I did get a dos-1.3 signon once, by 
powering the whole system up with the switch set at slot 1, so until I 
find differently I assume it is working.  I do NOT like doing the 
powerdowns though, its hell on hard drives, and these two old Seagate 
hawks are not readily replaceable.

But, I also find that I need to add some more math to bootlink and give me 
a report at startup indicating which of the 255 choices of vdisks hdbdos 
allows, it is getting its os9boot file from now. I can change it, then 
unless I put a postit on the monitor, I promptly forget which boot I am 
actually using.

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Another wag once said that if he had known he was going to live this long, 
he would have taken lots better care of himself.  Me too...

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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