From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Mar 23 18:16:03 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo Installer? (PLEASE: NO DAYDREAMING IN THIS THREAD PLEASE!) From: Alan Hourihane To: Jo Even Skarstein Cc: MiNT Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4BA92F30.1030408@online.no> References: <545455540.20100323215838@hol.gr> <752526d21003231317r220279acj30777c510ecc8afd@mail.gmail.com> <4BA92F30.1030408@online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:10:23 +0000 Message-Id: <1269382223.19190.25.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o2NMG3Fv027770 On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 22:14 +0100, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > Kåre Andersen wrote: > > > There is no need to install all of easymint. You need mke2fs, tar and > > gzip. A mint kernel and a shell (i suggest conholio) is also useful... > > Thats about it. > > Boot to shell or aes, mke2fs on the partition you want to use. tar > > zxvf Alans tarball. Voila. > > > > An installer would be awesome tho :) > > Sounds like there's a need for two installers. > > 1. A general FreeMiNT installer that installs/updates the kernel, XaAES > and the basic tools (like TosWin2 and the fs tools). This is totally > independent of Gentoo, SpareMiNT or any other distribution, it just > installs and configures a working MiNT/AES setup. Now that's a good idea, and I like it. > 2. The next step which is the Gentoo installer. I haven't tested Gentoo > yet, but from the descriptions all this installer has to do is to > initialize an ext2 partition and unpack the tarball. From then on the > maintenance of the Gentoo is system is taken care of with the Gentoo > package manager, right? Right. > I have an installer as described in (1). I wrote it in 2000 for a MiNT > "distribution" I called NewbieMiNT. Unfortunately this installer was > never properly finished as I messed up my gcc install and lost > motivation. Also, it depended heavily on a closed source GEM library so > the code isn't suitable for release. Some screenshots of the installer > can be seen here: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20000527055027/http://atari.nvg.org/ > > I think that such an installer would be a good addition to the FreeMiNT > project, and with this in mind I started to rewrite this installer a > couple of months ago. Unfortunately I've had a lot less spare time than > expected, so progress is very slow. Indeed it would. Alan.