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| author | boisy |
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| date | Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:11:34 +0000 |
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--- a/docs/nitros9guide/chap1.chapter Tue Mar 04 15:06:11 2003 +0000 +++ b/docs/nitros9guide/chap1.chapter Tue Mar 04 15:11:34 2003 +0000 @@ -4,21 +4,21 @@ <section> <title>What You Need to Run OS-9</title> <para> -OS-9 has been tailored to run on your standard, unmodified &make; -Computer. To use it you'll need the following things: +&os9level &os9version has been tailored to run on the &make;. To use it you'll need the following things: </para> <itemizedlist mark="bullet"> - <listitem><para>A 64K Memory &make; Computer</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>A &make; Computer Disk Drive With Contoller Cartridge</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>An OS-9 &make; Computer System Disk</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>A &minmem &make; </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>A Disk Drive With Contoller Cartridge</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>An OS-9 &make; System Disk</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para> OS-9 is also ready to use the following optional equipment that you may have now or may obtain in the future: </para> <itemizedlist mark="bullet"> - <listitem><para>Additional Expansion Disk Drive(s)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>A Parallel Printer</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Additional Floppy Disk Drives</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>SCSI or IDE Hard Drives</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Printers and Serial Ports</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Game Joysticks</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Other OS-9 Compatible Languages and Software</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -29,18 +29,18 @@ To start up OS-9 follow these steps: <orderedlist numeration="arabic"> -<listitem><para>Turn the &make; Computer and disk drive(s) on. You should see -the usual Basic greeting message on the screen.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Turn the &make; and disk drive(s) on. You should see +the usual BASIC greeting message on the screen.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Insert the OS-9 System Disk in drive zero and close the door.</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Type "BOOT". After a few seconds of disk activity you should -see a screen with the words "OS9BOOT".</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Type "&DOSCMD". After a few seconds of disk activity you should +see a screen with the words "OS9 BOOT".</para></listitem> <listitem><para>OS-9 will then begin its "bootstrap" loading process, which involves ten to twenty seconds of disk activity. When the system -startup has finished, a message followed by an "OS9:" prompt will be +startup has finished, a message followed by the shell prompt will be displayed.</para></listitem> </orderedlist> </para> @@ -49,19 +49,19 @@ <section> <title>In Case You Have Problems Starting OS-9</title> <itemizedlist> -<listitem><para>If Basic gives an error message after you -type "BOOT", remove the +<listitem><para>If BASIC gives an error message after you +type "&DOSCMD", remove the disk, turn the computer off and on, then try again. If this repeatedly fails your OS-9 diskette may be bad.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Did you remember to turn the disk drive power switch on?</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Does your &make; Computer have 64K RAM? This is a must!</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Does your &make; have &minmem RAM? This is a must!</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>If your &make; Computer doesn't seem to understand the BOOT -command, contact your dealer.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>If your &make; doesn't seem to understand the &DOSCMD command, your controller has DOS 1.0. You will need to upgrade to +DOS 1.1.</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>If the "OS9BOOT message is displayed but nothing else happens, +<listitem><para>If the "OS9 BOOT message is displayed but nothing else happens, you may have a corrupted system disk. Hopefully you did make a backup!</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ keep track of the date and time of creation of new files and disks. Enter the current date and time in the format requested like this: <screen> - YY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS - TIME ? 83 7 14 1420 + yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss + Time? 2003 03 01 14 20 </screen> -In the example above, the date entered was July 14, 1983. OS-9 +In the example above, the date entered was March 1, 2003. OS-9 uses 24-hour time so the date entered was 1420 hours or 2:20 PM. -Next, OS-9 will print an "OS9:" prompt to let you know it is ready +Next, OS-9 will print the shell prompt to let you know it is ready for you to type in a command. </para> <para> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ <screen> OS9Boot startup CMDS SYS DEFS </screen> -The file "OS9Boot" contains the OS-9 program in 6809 machine +The file "OS9Boot" contains the OS-9 program in &CPU machine language, which was loaded into memory during the bootstrap operation. </para> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ all the system commands such as DIR, LIST, FORMAT, etc. To see the files contained in this directory, enter: <screen> -DIR CMDS +dir cmds </screen> which tells DIR to show files on the directory file CMDS instead of the root directory. After you type this you should see a long @@ -169,12 +169,11 @@ Seven explains each one in detail. The DIR command also has a handy option to display the CMDS directory with less typing: <screen> -DIR X +dir -x </screen> Whenever you want a list of available commands you can use this so you don't have to look it up in the book. The DIR command has -options which can give you more detailed information about each file -(see sections 3.4 and 3.8.1). +options which can give you more detailed information about each file. </para> </section> </section> @@ -199,16 +198,16 @@ accidentally FORMAT your system disk. Type: <screen> -FORMAT /D0 +format /d0 </screen> and when you see the message <screen> -DRAGON DISK FORMATTER 1 . 2 +COLOR COMPUTER FORMATTER FORMAT DRIVE /D0 Y (YES) OR N (NO) -READY? +Ready? </screen> immediately remove your system disk and insert a blank disk @@ -252,7 +251,7 @@ IF YOU HAVE ONE DRIVE type </para> <screen> -BACKUP /D0 #32k +backup /d0 #32k </screen> <para> The BACKUP program will prompt you to alternately insert the source @@ -263,7 +262,7 @@ IF YOU HAVE TWO DRIVES type </para> <screen> -BACKUP #32K +backup #32K </screen> <para> @@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ Now enter Y for yes. It will then ask: </para> <screen> -X IS BEING SCRATCHED +X is being scratched OK ?: </screen> <para> @@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ </para> <para> After you have made your backup disk, try turning the &make; -Computer off and restarting the system with the copy you just made. +off and restarting the system with the copy you just made. If it works OK, store it in a safe place in case it is needed later. You should always have a backup copy of your system disk and all other important disks.