Announcing ready to use freemint sd card images for the ST

[marcello]

For people with a 68000 ST, and a ultrasatan card reader: I have made a ready to use Freemint Distribution called MKMD, in the form of a sd card image. You just need to burn the image on a fresh sd card, put it in your Ultrasatan device, and hop, you have the full Freemint, in the form of a standard Unix environnement.

I am focusing on the 68000 because it is well, what I have, and Unix-like because, it is well, what I like

Downloads and details are here: http://subsole.org/mkmd

Nb: if you have a TT or Falcon, EasyMint or NetBSD are a much better start !

Edited:

MKMD has been replaced by ST Mint, based on Freemint 1.15 which will allow much more interesting stuff to work ( ethernet card !)
Get the new sd card image at http://subsole.org/st_mint.

[Dal]

Interesting. Is this just a the Freemint shell or the full xaaes and desktop? If it's the latter, then have you optimised it at all? In my experience, Freemint on a stock ST wasn't particularly pleasant or much use.

[marcello]

I Included a copy of the Mulltitos AES (last time I tried Freemint 1.16 + xaaes on a 68000 ST it was crashing )
The whole of it is not superfast, but it is workable, after starting MKMD you usually have 2MB of FreeRAM.

[AdamK]

Nice, but the environment is very old.

On the other hand, with modern environment, 4MB is just enough for kernel and Xaaes + desktop, nut much left.

[simonsunnyboy]

Sounds quite interesting and like a good compromise.

Is the Ultrasatan a real requirement or will the old Satandisk do aswell?

[AtariZoll]

It should work from Satandisk too, as uses basic ACSI command set and AHDI hard disk driver. In Steem works.

[marcello]

Nice, but the environment is very old.

On the other hand, with modern environment, 4MB is just enough for kernel and Xaaes + desktop, nut much left.

Actually, I just retried freemint 1.17 with Xaaes and it crashes before loading the desktop Xaaes with some KMEM error message ...
And Multitos crashes too with freemint 1.17.

So I am sticking at the moment with the very old 1.12 kernel.

[alanh]

Why haven't you tried 1.18 ?

[marcello]

@alanh:

Because I suspect the same lack of RAM problem Remember I want to support 4MB RAM config. BTW thanks for the Ethernec, I got it from you

Actually due to various problem with KGMD (deprecated Mint Net, funky configuration of component, ie syslog which logs everything to /var/log/ppp.log, non working Ethernec) I have rebased my work on CrippledMint :It brings me a more recent kernel (1.15), which is old enough to run with Multitos, and recent enough to work with the Ethernec drivers.
When the system is running, I still get 1,8 MB Free RAM.

A disk image of the St Mint distribution is available at http://subsole.org/st_mint

[alanh]

Try 1.18. I'd be interested to hear how much free RAM you have.

[marcello]

Xaaes crashes on loading with Mint 1.18 on my Atari STE ( 4MB RAM., ST High)
I uploaded an image of the crash here: http://imgur.com/9QaY8NR

The *same* setup (sd card bitcopy used as an ACSI disk image ) works reliably on Hatari, leaving 400 KB free using FreeeMint + Xaaaes + TeraDesk + Toswin
But we want working real hardware

[alanh]

Can you try the daily snapshot from www.freemint.org ?

[marcello]

Daily Snapshot ( 28/10/2014 build ) crashed as well ,see here http://imgur.com/HOKGNoW

[alanh]

That screenshot still shows 1.18, so it's not the trunk. It should be 1-19-cur.

Can you try again as the trunk runs fine on my STE and STFM here.

Thanks.

[marcello]

I willl try to reproduce this next week end, and report on the freemint mailing list

[Eero Tamminen]

Xaaes crashes on loading with Mint 1.18 on my Atari STE ( 4MB RAM., ST High)
I uploaded an image of the crash here: http://imgur.com/9QaY8NR

The *same* setup (sd card bitcopy used as an ACSI disk image ) works reliably on Hatari, leaving 400 KB free using FreeeMint + Xaaaes + TeraDesk + Toswin

Did you use exactly the same setup (machine type, TOS version, amount of memory etc) with Hatari as your real HW had?

(If yes, it sounds like a bug in Hatari.)

[marcello]

Did you use exactly the same setup (machine type, TOS version, amount of memory etc) with Hatari as your real HW had?

The only two differences I see would be the TOS language, and the DMA chipse which I know is bad in my STE. RAM, TOS Version, Model are the same.
If I can reproduce the bug with Freemint 1.19, I wil lreport it to the atari-users mailing list.

[marcello]

In the meantime, released version 0.6, works quite well with Bash and TCP/IP, all working with 4MB 520 STE.
http://subsole.org/st_mint

[Mathias]

Just for the records; do you know that Vincent is providing a lot of the tools you are using as binaries for 68000 machines as well? zip, tar, qed, toswin2, ... everything quite newly recompiled and recent versions.


http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68 ... ives/mint/

[mfro]

In the meantime, released version 0.6, works quite well with Bash and TCP/IP, all working with 4MB 520 STE.
http://subsole.org/st_mint

Great job!

Although it's probably not its primary purpose (and you might not even know it), your image is perfectly suited to run MiNT on the MiST!

I have copied over everything from your download image to a HDDRIVER formatted one, renamed MiNT's MFP driver (as it seems to be incompatible with the MiST) and have a very neat MultiTOS setup for the MiST!

[Kirkman]

In the meantime, released version 0.6, works quite well with Bash and TCP/IP, all working with 4MB 520 STE.
http://subsole.org/st_mint

I just tried this for the first time on my 4mb Mega STe with TOS 2.06, via CosmosEx, but it bombs out shortly after scanning the ACSI busses. The last line on the screen when it bombs is:

ACCs/DESKTOP.INF: C

Any idea what could be wrong?

(Using the same image with Hatari on my Mac set to same specs as my Mega STe, I am able to get to the MultiTOS desktop just fine)

--Josh

[Monsoft]

For people with a 68000 ST, and a ultrasatan card reader: I have made a ready to use Freemint Distribution called MKMD, in the form of a sd card image. You just need to burn the image on a fresh sd card, put it in your Ultrasatan device, and hop, you have the full Freemint, in the form of a standard Unix environnement.

I am focusing on the 68000 because it is well, what I have, and Unix-like because, it is well, what I like

Downloads and details are here: http://subsole.org/mkmd

Nb: if you have a TT or Falcon, EasyMint or NetBSD are a much better start !

What monitor are you using with your Atari ST ?
I deployed KGMD few days back and my fonts are not readable after I logged in the system (I can see only half of the line)
I'm connected via RGB cable to my LCD TV and I suspect that this is issue.

[qq1975b]

Is this Freemint working Ok with a 16MHZ machine? I mean MSTE or Mega ST with 16MHZ booster and AltRAM?

[Kirkman]

I have not explored much with it, but I was finally able to boot the FreeMiNT SD card on my Mega STe. It does work.

[ccarl84]

Hello,
I think it's a very interesting job you did there.
I just try it on Hatari 1.6 with 4MB STE and it works well .
I would like to try it on my STE and my TT .
How can I access my other hard drives ?
How do I add programs . It's ok, I Have undertood.
I am a beginner in Mint configurations.
Translated with Google Translate .
Thank you .

ccarl84