#: 7402 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    15-Oct-90  23:26:47
Sb: #Help with PT68-K4 OS9
Fm: Jack Crenshaw 72325,1327
To: All

I've been having a little trouble getting set up with OS9 on the PT68-K4. I'm
hoping one of you old hands can help me figure out what's going on.

Actually, I got started with OS9 by accident.  When I upgraded from the -K2 to
a -K4, Peripheral Tech was under the impression that I already had OS9, so they
sent me a set of OS9 disks as an upgrade. Being the honest person that I am
(and also ready to try OS9), rather than sending the disks back I called and
asked that they charge me the price for OS9, and send the manuals.  The manuals
came with a second, more official-looking set of disks.

When I tried to boot, I discovered that the first set of disks (the upgrade
set) booted just fine, but the "legal" set has serious problems. It wouldn't
boot at all.  No problem, says I, I'll use the first set.

Everything seemed to go fine at first.  The system came up, all the dir, chd,
chs, and the obvious stuff worked.  Natch, the first step seemed to be to back
up the distribution disks.  I found that format worked fine, but backup
doesn't:  I get error 000:232, which indicates a bad CRC.

Ironically, I did a cmp of the copy of backup on the first and second sets. The
OS9Boot program on the two disks showed beaucoup differences (which I suppose
explains why one will boot and the other won't!), but cmp says that the two
backups are identical.

I called PT, and they sent a replacement set of disks, which arrived today. Got
the same problem as the first set.  It boots, but backup shows a bad CRC.

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