Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT

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

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:44 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> I know I've mentioned Gentoo before, but I've been putting some effort
> into backing up my claims now and I've promised an Aranym image before
> too. Work gets in the way :-)
> 
> Anyway, rather than provide a pure aranym image, I'm going to provide a
> tarball with appropriate install instructions that can be written over
> an EasyMiNT install. i.e. Use EasyMiNT to install, then blow out the
> drive (or reformat) and untar the new gentoo tarball. It should be that
> simple and available to all Atari's although ST's with only 4MB of RAM
> will suffer I think. Not sure what (if anything) to do about that. Just
> that the new unix tools eat memory.
> 
> I'm about half way through the process on my Aranym machine to test, but
> obviously I've been running this for over 18 months on my Falcon now.
> 
> It's also still lacking in a few places, such as a bootstrap process, so
> we'll just fall straight to a bash shell prompt for now. I've got some
> ideas here that I'll share closer to releasing the tarball.
> 
> My target is the end of January.

O.k so this slipped but only by a fraction, because of a US trip I had
to make.

So targetting mid-Feb now. There's just a few more packages to
re-compile to ensure they all compile under ARAnyM.

Alan.