[Coco] Trying to build new images

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 8 15:57:08 EST 2017


On 1/8/17 3:15 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> OK, I have reproduced your problem and you are not doing anything wrong.
> There are one or more problems with the scripts for Level1. I'm not sure
> where the main problem is but correcting the minor "space" issues within
> mb.dw does not fix it.
>
> While we try to track this down, here is a method for creating new boot
> disks that will work.
>  1) Mount a new disk in /X1
>  2) FORMAT /X1
>  3) COBBLER /X1
>  4) MAKDIR /X1/CMDS
>  5) copy any commands you want to /x1/cmds or copy all of them with
>     CHD CMDS
>     DSAVE /X1/CMDS ! SHELL -P
>  You will then have a new disk for DW that will boot. You should add any
> required files like a new STARTUP, other directories, etc.

Yes, but the target is not to duplicate what I have.  I can do that by
just copying the DSK image.  I need to be able to build new systems for
different hardware combinations like IDE and SCSI Hard Disks and even
the SDC I have.

bill





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