[JohnBHanson]

As usual the boot sequence of gemini preserves the memory from 0100 upwards eg the program area.

This can be useful. use binload in the config file to load a program of choice. The program of choice is of course t-net.com.

binload 0100 ./beaver/network/t-net.com


Add a line to the config file to define a serial port as bvrnet eg..

board 0xb8 serial_8250 bvrnet ~/beaver/network

create a file of suitable size filled with 0xe5 to be the hard disk (About 10MByte) gem925.dsk

run xbeaver with the configuration file.

at the prompt
M>save 0 go.com
M>go n
T-NET
M>
M>

Make sure ~beaver/network has the required files on it - eg t-net pip etc
M>N:PIP A:=N:*.*
And the files will be copied to the emulated hard disk giving an image file

With the correct utilities you should then be able to write the boot track and build a system.

*** NOTE *** this system requires a GM833 ram disk to boot. It copies the command processor into the ram disk and then reloads the command processor from the system
track of the ramdisk. If you don't have a ramdisk it will halt at booting.

You maybe able to use the utilities to generate a system that does not have a ramdisk though - this is new area for me I rolled my own out of public domain software CCPZ/BDOSZ.

Note also the GM925 would have had a double/high density 80 track drive eg 3.5 or 5 inch floppy 1.2M or 1.44MByte - there were 8 inch compatible in high density mode.