[Coco] ok i am learning but not fast enough

[Bill Pierce]

 Richard, you did everything right except the disk. The problem is that RSDOS (HDBDOS in this case) will not handle that odd large disk size that is the dw disk. I'm not sure how you copied it, but you need a 35trk disk with that very boot on it so you can backup to drive 255. You may not be getting the entire disk contents.
Sadly, no one seems to be convinced there's a need for 35 track disks in the repo even though at least three times a year (sometimes more) someone can't backup a disk to an HDBDOS drive.. You just about have to jump through hoops to get that disk on a 35trk disk properly. You have to have a real floppy and drivewire access or use Vcc w/beckerport, as you need a way to backup the system to a 35trk disk then back it up to disk255 in hdbdos.
The only other way is to use the scripts in the Nitros9 folder on the repo disk. That's a whole 'nother story.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hawk <rhawk1 at centurylink.net>
To: Coco <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 10:24 pm
Subject: [Coco] ok i am learning but not fast enough

I pulled my real COCO3.  I am wanting a hard drive but cloud 9 is sold outon the superide.  So I am stuck with using drivewire4 and vccemudisk.vhd I been pouring over the internet and reading manuals and trying.  I came upwith I have to boot in to hdb-dos 1.2 I need to purchace a new rom I think Isaw there is hdb-dos 1.4 out there. So if anybody knows where I can purchasethat i would appreciate it.   So anyways I type (POKE &HD938,5 : POKE &HD939,&HA0 : POKE &HD93A,0) and Ihave the .vhd in drive 0 in the drivewire.  I can access all the drives 0 to255  no problems.  I copied a nitros9.dsk (one that actuall boots up and hasthe correct clock and all. And it is (good testnos96309l2v030209coco3_dw3.dsk 629kb) works well when you boot that up.  Soanyways I copied it to 255 and run (link:253) and it won't link.  So anywaysI tried dos 255 and it boots all the way and hangs right before the clockand shell prompt It goes through the entire white screen where it loads or whatever it doingthen screen turns green with nitros9 level 2 vers 3.3.0  get all the way toend and just sits there before the time and date when you just hit enter andit should read the time from drive wire I am so sorry for being a pain in the ass  But I keep all emails so I can go back and look at it when needed so that'smy sad story Thanks again Richard HawkRhawk1 at deskmate.  Ps everything going great with vcc and vccemudisk.vhd. just wanting to getthe real thing set up now Deskmate working like a charm printing with disk basic and nitros9 on thevcc side great and also can print through the real coco also That's why I want to use the nitro9.dsk cause it has everything I like on italready set up    -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco