Re: [MiNT] EasyMiNT / Aranym issues?

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2010/6/11 Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> Miro Kropacek wrote:
>>
>> mint's unix stuff can't run from hostfs
>> entirely, I'm not sure whos fault it is but I tried to do exactly that
>> some months ago -- i.e. bootstrapped mintara.prg + whole filesystem on
>> hostfs. I came pretty far but then it failed either on some symlinks
>> or unability to create stuff like /pipe/log or so.
>
> I use a minimal setup using a boostraped MiNT on hostfs and bash-only on the
> BIOS console, it works well.
>
> The RPM database can't live on an hostfs drive because it lacks some locking
> functions. So you can't use rpm on a fully hostfs system. I struggled a lot
> to understand that.
>
> ARAnyM use internal hacking with the contents of the symlinks (unlike NFS
> for example), I gave up trying serious things on hostfs (such as compiling).
>
> When using ls, the number of blocks used by the files is incorrect. It seems
> there is a misunderstanding between MiNTLib/FreeMiNT/hostfs/ARAnyM. I
> started investigating that one day, but I didn't finished, since it is a
> minor issue.
>
> Some people will say things can't work correctly on Windows because of the
> case-insensitive filesystem, but since things work fine in Cygwin itself, I
> think it should work as fine in MiNT+hostfs.
>
> And finally, MiKRO, I think this is what you tried: copying a full EasyMiNT
> setup from FAT16/ext2 partitions to hostfs should work fine, it is a very
> realistic goal and testcase.
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière
>
If you remember I had a problem with CAT on AFROS when trying create
binaries, but that was only an issue if ./configure was needed in the
build process

as an alternative to using RPM on hostfs, (on linux) I simply
extracted all RPM's via an arc too, onto a AFROS d_drive folder
(hostfs) which supports the full /etc,/bin, /usr/etc, /usr/bin, etc

Again, the only problem I had was getting CAT to function correctly
(with infodoc pipes <<<)

I have yet to get a fully functioning ARAnyM under windows yet, the
networking is killing me, but my old AFROS setup does work, and will
compile programs that do no use ./configure (works with a ./configure
script that does not use cat <<<)

Paul