sprague.wbst311@XEROX.COM (01/03/91)
Has anyone ever installed ZSDOS (by Plu*Perfect) on a Xerox 820-II? Can it be done? I have had one heck of a time trying!!! Bridger gave me the phone number for one of the authors, but before I go bothering anyone at their home, I thought I would first check here. When I tried using INSTALOS in the normal way. I got an error message saying "Bit relocatable table not found" (or something like that). The error, when checked in the manual, said that something was probably non-standard, and suggested trying MOVCPM to create a file, and use INSTALOS with the /A option. So, I tried MOVCPM * *. I kept getting the message SYNCRONIZATION ERROR, and the computer locked up, forcing me to push the reset button. I finally reformatted the disk I was trying to put ZSDOS on, and SYSGEN'ed it from my Master System Disk. I did NOT run CONFIGUR like I normally would. Once the needed CP/M and ZSDOS files were copied over, I ran MOVCPM * * again. This time, MOVECPM worked. It would have defaulted to a filename of CPM60.SYS, but I named it SYSTEM.MDL so I could use the default in INSTALOS. At that point, I ran INSTALOS /A, and used SYSTEM.MDL. It seemed to work this time, though it came up with the following. CCP 0000H BDOS 0800H BIOS 1600H Not exactly what I was expecting for a 60K system!!! Not being happy with this, I continued on anyway, and replaced the DOS using ZSSYS.ZRL. I then SYSGENED the disk using the resulting MDL file. As expected, the computer locked up when I tried to boot it. I really don't know what to do next. Any suggestions? ~ Mike (Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.Com)