Help with LS-DOS 6.3.1 was ( Need a copy of TRSDOS 6 OS)

From: Steve Robertson <steverob_at_hotoffice.com>
Date: Mon Feb 8 06:36:23 1999

Thanks Ward and Tony,

I guess the original problem was the nut between the keyboard and the
chair. Who'd thought there was a Y-1987 problem.

I downloaded LS-DOS and TRSCROSS and got them transferred to the TL/2.
Using TRSCROSS, I am able to format disks that are readable by the Model IV
on that system. Now, I need a little help getting LS-DOS to boot on the IV.
When I tried to copy LS-DOS to a disk (using TRSCROSS), it told me the file
name was not valid.

Assuming the file needs to be renamed, what should the file name be?
Is there anything special I need to do to make this a bootable image?

If someone could provide step-by-step instructions, I'd really appreciate
it...

Thanks,

Steve Robertson - QA Team Leader <steverob_at_hotoffice.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell [SMTP:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 4:44 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Need a copy of TRSDOS 6 OS

>
> I am having a little trouble with my TRS Model IV . When I boot off of
the

Having just restored one, maybe I can help...

> TRSDOS system disk, the system prompts for the time and won't go any
> farther. When I enter the time, it clears the field and prompts again.

Normally it prompts for the date first (actually, both the date and time
prompts can be enabled/disabled by the appropriate command...).

Are you giving it a valid date or time? Note that a lot of TRS-DOS 6/
LS-DOS 6 versions will only take dates between 1980 and 1987. Try a date
in that range.

The best fix for that is to upgrade to LS-DOS 6.3.1. You can get a disk
image (and the source) from Tim Mann's web site. To get the disk image to
a real disk you can use either xtrs (a trs-80 emulator which uses X) under
linux, or a little program I've written, also for a linux box, that
simply writes disk images to real disks. Let me know if you (or anyone
else) wants the latter.


> The computer works just fine with all my other software so, I suspect the
> disk is corrupt. If anyone has an extra copy of TRSDOS 6.x laying around,
> I'd really appreciate it.

If you really can't get it locally, I can write you an LS-DOS 6.3.1 disk
and post it to you. Of course the post might well mangle it :-(

>
> TIA, Steve Robertson
>
> <steverob_at_hotoffice.com>
>
>

-tony
Received on Mon Feb 08 1999 - 06:36:23 GMT