[MiNT] My remarks (2)

[Philipp Donzé <philipp.donze@epfl.ch>]

Hi again,

I finally installed easymint (basic and standard package) and the new 
kernel.
At the moment the easymint part of my installation is unusable as I'm 
using the mint.cnf distributed with 1.16.0 which doesn't use "init" but 
starts directly xaaes. As desktop I installed jinnee in the xaaes.cnf.

1. After booting I see an alert: "pid 2 (update): block_IO (F): 
bio_writeout: RWABS fail (ignored, -13)"
Is this a problem or should I just 'click it away'?

2. Further if I enable "init step by step" in the boot menu, the system 
freezes after "Warning: You have turned off memory protection". This 
happens in on my CT60 with and without MP. It freezes and doesn't react 
on any keypress.

3. What miracle needs to happen so that I'll be able to start a TOS/TTP 
application by doubleclicking on it?
I already enabled the "launcher=...tw-call.prg" in the xaaes.cnf and 
the application can be found at the given location.
If I start "tw-call.prg" manually, jinnee states: "Error while loading. 
(Out of memory?)"

5. In mint.cnf you write "not recommended to enable VFAT on your 
bootdrive (C:)" but the distribution published already contains files 
which have long filenames: MINT\1-16-0\TBL\Switzerland*
Perhaps the "tbl" folder should be moved out of "mint\1-16-0\" folder 
as most of the people won't install them anyway.
Further folder with long filenames: DRIVER\ASSEMS*

6. If I reenable "init" as boot system and start then XaAES using 
xaloader.prg. I can't quit XaAES to get back to bash! Mouse is still 
active but neither menu nor desktop can be used.


There seem to be a lot of "locks" and "freezes" which have to be 
resolved until I can really get to the internals of MiNT :-)
At the moment I'll still use MagiC and TOS for my developing purposes.

Philipp

PS
You see I'm not afraid of asking stupid questions :-)