[Coco] NitrOS-9 EOU (Ease of Use) Beta 5 released

[Kevin Becker]

I was only trying to help improve the docs a little bit, but if you
think it's helpful to provide autoboot enabled images I'm happy to
contribute.  I submitted two zip files for 6309 and 6809 CPUs to the
archive.  I added some warnings that they should be used on dedicated
SD cards in the description and an additional README.TXT file as well.

On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 15:36 -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> That’s a good idea, actually, especially since quite a few people
> have multiple SD cards, so that they can dedicate one to be a
> “NitrOS9 Card”. The reason I changed it from automatically booting is
> that some “casual” users (who just want to try it, or just play
> games, etc.) have the NitrOS9 drive images on the same card as bunch
> of DECB stuff, and they didn’t want the Coco to be taken over by
> NitrOS9 every time they turned their Coco on with the SDC plugged
> in.If someone wants to upload such an image withe autoboot all set
> up, and makes it quite clear that this will take you Coco over once
> you install it, we would be fine with that.
> 
> L. Curtis Boylecurtisboyle at sasktel.net
> 
> 
> 
> > On May 16, 2020, at 9:58 AM, mpacan at flutterball.com wrote:
> >   Kevin,  What might be even better is if you could just make a
> > copy (zip) of  your entire SD card, with the Nitros9 EOU and
> > autoboot files already  created, and this could then just be
> > potentially saved to the Color  Computer Archive site, so anyone
> > could just download it and place it on  a SD, then it would really
> > be an Ease of Use autobooting edition.  Just  a thought, I would
> > try it.  On May 15, 2020 5:01 PM, Kevin Becker <
> > kevin at kevinbecker.org> wrote:
> >     Sorry, my steps got kinda mangled because I had HTML email
> > enabled
> >     - copy EOU_USER.VHD and 68SDC.VHD (or 63SDC.VHD for a 6309 CPU)
> > to    the      root of your SD card    - create a text file called
> > STARTUP.CFG in the root of your SD card      with the following
> > lines:    0=68SDC.VHD  (or0=63SDC.VHD for 6309
> > CPU)    1=EOU_USER.VHD    - insert the SD card inyour CoCoSDC and
> > power on the CoCo- enter    DRIVES      to verify both disk images
> > are mounted    - enter RENAME "AUTO.BAS" TO "AUTOEXEC.BAS"    -
> > power off and back on your CoCo and you should boot directly
> > into      NitrOS9