Re: [MiNT] GentooMiNT sample distro install

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:29 +1100, Paul Wratt wrote:
> Ok, got new ARAnyM 0.9.10 + FreeMiNT 1.17.0 + GentooMiNT running after
> about 3-4 hours of work (not including compiling ARAnyM)
> 
> Copy the distro archive to the drive or partition you want to use.
> 
> The distro then needs to be extracted:
> tar -jxvf gentoo.tar.bz2
> 
> With ARAnyM this was easy, I used the host to do it. You could do the
> same with real hardware if you have an SDcard setup.
> 
> If you are like me and download everything to your machine before
> installing it, you can place all tar.bz2 package files into
> /usr/portage/distfiles/ (folder does not exist by default)
> 
> For a partition image, or regular machine, you will probably need to
> use EasyMiNT, and your image/partition will have to be large, because
> its a 145Mb BZip2, extracting to 449.6Mb (the repo
> http://gentoo.atariforge.org/files/ is currently  995Mb+ in total
> before installation).
> 
> Guestimated useful partition size of 2Gb, maybe even 4Gb if you intend
> it to be your main progams and dev partition also. Probably better to
> use Portage to get the packages as you require them if space is an
> issue as some packages  are just older versions
> 
> then delete (move) the distro archive (saving 145Mb)
> 
> I also created the following empty folders on the same drive/path,
> just for good measure:
> lost+found
> mnt
> opt
> root
> tmp
> 
> that covers all the entries in the supplied mint.cnf with 1.17.0
> INIT=/bin/bash
> 
> The first time I got MiNT to boot, it worked.
> 
> the following are auto booted by mint.cnf:
> exec u:/c/auto/clocky.prg
> #exec u:/c/mint/mgw.prg
> exec u:/c/mint/gluestik.prg
> echo
> exec u:/c/auto/zmagxsnd.prg
> exec u:/c/auto/nfjpeg.prg
> exec u:/c/auto/fvdi.prg
> echo
> exec u:/bin/bash u:/c/mint/netsetup.sh
> echo
> 
> I also installed:
> c:\teradesk
> c:\toswin2
> 
> I used the following to get MyAES to run (thanks to )
> INIT=u:/c/gemsys/myaes/myaes.tos MYAES_PATH=C:\gemsys\
> 
> 
> 
> NETWORKING:
> 
> The biggest problem I had was getting ARAnyM to boot EmuTOS + MiNT
> (not dont use ./ for relative paths)
> 
> Also with any ARAnyM install that does not come from a deb/rpm
> package, then as root, copy all aranym binaries to /sbin (or similar),
> including aratapif, then:
> chmod +s /sbin/aratapif
> 
> if you are getting, the following, its can be resolved as above
> host_IP: permission denied
> 
> In order to get networking running, I copied the following from AFROS
> LiveCD, into c:\mint (so I could use them with other MiNT distros) :
> netseup.sh
> nfethcfg.ttp
> 
> I also copied a ping tool there too. (gentoo sample distro and afros
> dont have one)
> 
> for a complete bootable MiNT system I would also copy over a console,
> ifconfig, route and a resolve.conf or whatever tools work without
> gentoo/sparemint/easymint (one of the ideas behind afros-update)
> 
> lastly dont forget to update /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Networking for ARAnyM is easiest done with tunctrl and tap0 (not
> bridging, br0). I was unable to get this to work on Windows with the
> latest Tun/Tap from coLinux, maybe try older versions. Bridging may
> give better results. Note you will have problems with Windows if your
> router or DNS server and on 192.168.0.x move it to 192.168.1.x
> 
> ------------------
> 
> Alan: can the next gentoo distro release also include ping and init

networking tools and init are my top priority (as well as keeping
packages up to date).

> How is above for start of docs?

Pretty good.

> Apart from the above networking issues, the only other things I
> noticed was lack of extend key support when booting to bash, and a
> lack of a - key when using the console in MyAES.
> 
> Any ideas about resolving those would be useful

None. Sorry.

> I just noticed that the .tbz2 packages are being served as text/plain
> by the server.

O.k. 

> next I will try and setup init and run X Windows, after that put
> everything on ext2 image (which looks like it will have to shared on
> peer-to-peer)

Hopefully others can use this introduction now.

Thanks Paul,

Alan.