[Coco] NitrOS-9 beginner

[K. Pruitt]

Bypassing the floppy and booting straight in to NitrOS-9 via drivewire is 
going to be the easiest most direct method.

I'd save the boot floppy as a last option.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hermanek"
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 beginner


> Cool, thanks everybody.  If tackling DW config + NitrOS is too much, I may 
> begin with the (possibly simpler) 35T disk image below.
>
> On 7/3/2015 4:44 PM, K. Pruitt wrote:
>> Yes, you got it.
>>
>> The image to use would be
>>
>> nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk
>>
>> I do believe you will have to issue a drive command or select HDBDOS 
>> Translation under the Tools menu of Drivewire. Someone knowledgeable on 
>> HDB-DOS will have to comment on that. Or since you already use HDB-DOS 
>> you probably already know how to do that.
>>
>> After you boot in to NitrOS-9 you can easily create boot disks in your 
>> floppy.
>>
>> But I've tossed a 35-track boot disk for you on drop box in case you need 
>> it.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ew57u2pmj6cpnua/BOOT35T.DSK?dl=0
>>
>>
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