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 How is above for start of docs? 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 I just noticed that the .tbz2 packages are being served as text/plain by the server. 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) Cheers Paul
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