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To make a bootable NitrOS-9 floppy
 
Format a single-sided, it must be single-sided, floppy disk under OS9.
for instance: DMODE /D0 SID=1 ; FORMAT /D0 r "Boot NitrOS-9"

Os9gen the drivers that you need. Don't forget to add 'Term' to the list of window descriptors.
Your default drive MUST be named: /DD, no matter if it is a floppy or hard-drive. If you used
/H0 in the past, it should be renamed to /DD.
   for RBF, use RBF.200
   for SCF, use SCF.200
   for PipeMan, use PipeMan.200
Include Clock at the last.

Here's my 'BootList':
OS9p2
Init
IOMan
RBF
CC3Disk
D0
D1
D2
CHSDisk8.2drives * chs-mode IDE drivers
DD.ide * chs-mode IDE descriptor, master
K1.ide * chs-mode IDE descriptor, slave
SCF
CC3IO
PiaPak
Lpt1.dd
SerialPak.dr
S1.dd
WindInt
Term
W
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
PipeMan
Piper
Pipe
Clock

Do Not include CC3Go! It goes at the root of the drive, /DD.

Using KUtil, replace the track 34 booter with "boottrack.tandy".
   KUtil -p /d0 boottrack.tandy

Copy to this floppy disk:
CC3Go    ( ATTR CC3Go -w -pw ) making it un-writeable so it can't be deleted later.
Startup     ( and inside of StartUp is: )
   -x
   Load /DD/CMDS/Utils1
   Display c
   List /DD/SYS/motd    *optional NitrOS-9 Welcome Prompt
   SeTime < /Term
   Shell i=/W1&
   Display C
   Display 7
   x
 

Make a directory called CMDS
Place inside of CMDS:
   GrfDrv
   Shell
   Utils1
   Load
   List
   Iniz
   Display
   SeTime
   Copy  *optional
   Attr     *optional
   Dump  *optional
   DeBug *optional
   Wedge *optional
   ModBust *optional

Make another directory called: SYS
Place inside of SYS:
   motd

You should be able to boot this disk from OS9, because it's single-sided.

Now go back to CMDS and add any other commands that you may want.
Like: Format, Edit, ReName, etc. Up to the "free" size of the floppy.

Oh, by the way, you need a Hitachi CPU to run NitrOS-9. Either a HD63C09EP or HD63B09EP.

Get all of these files/modules from:  ftp://ftp.striker.ottawa.on.ca/pub/nitros9/
Get them as an 'archive'.

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