In <Pine.LNX.3.94.1010102150256.767D-100000_at_uno>, on 01/03/01
at 03:50 AM, Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> said:
>Do you have a HD? I'd like to run MiNT, but I'm uncertain about its
>usefulness without a hard drive.
>The other problem is that the two parport ethernet drivers for the Atari
>require either a D-Link DE600 or an RTL8012 based adaptor, and AFAIK,
>Xircom ones are compatible with neither.
Yup, its running on a 600mb scsi with a Link II interface. Gotta have a
hard disk. You might be able to string enough floppy drives together to
run it, but it would be a custom setup. MiNT docs say it'll run on any
ST. I think you might get a single user session and PPP going but that
would be the limit. X barely runs on my 4mb ram and I can't actually run
any X programs without running out of memory at that. No virtual memory
really hurts. Later Ataris like the Falcon and the TT don't suffer from
this so killer MiNT setups are possible.
In the last couple of years, I've had by far the best luck with KEMD, the
English translation of Knarf's German MiNT Distribution (KGMD). It is
easy to install and comes with most of what you need such as a TCP/IP
stack and PPPD. The first install screens are in German. Basically I
made educated guesses as to what was being asked..... If you have
questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
>> It is networked but via a PPP serial link at 19200bps.... The ppp server
>> is Tserve for OS/2.
>An OS/2 junkie? That was a while ago (not counting the state railways and
>the local supermarket). I've been intending to install Warp on one of my
>new Pentiums (I've already got 2.1 on a 486). It doesn't seem to like
>ATAPI drives, though. Cor, I feel so modern, having got my first 100 MHz
>computer.
Yea, I've been an OS/2phile for going on ten years. 2.1 is not happy with
most Atapi cdrom drives without adding a driver to your install disks.
Warp Connect and Warp 4 are very happy with almost any drive. Thise
year's release of OS/2 is EcomStation and installs like a dream on almost
any pc hardware. I owe a lot to OS/2. Finally a new version!
Regards,
Jeff
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