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Re: [MiNT] No floppy

I have installed the CF-card in my Falcon as 1:1 copy of an Aranym filesystem I prepared earlier from Aranym.
Basically, the CF card was mounted on my Linux machine, assigned as Aranym filesystem (can be done in Linux simply by pointing Aranym to the respective device file in the config file), partitioned through HDDRIVER in Aranym and copied everything over. 

Works perfectly once plugged into the Falcon and took only a few minutes.

On 10.03.2013 15:16, Peter Slegg wrote:

Yesterday I was trying to install an IDE CF card reader but I couldn't
get the Milan to boot from the HDD when it was installed.

Somehow it managed to damage the C: partition. Eventually I
had to install an old HDD to boot from and then, use HD-Driver
to zero the partition and then I could copy C: across.

If I had had a boot floppy with the right stuff on it it might
have saved me some time but later I thought that floppies are
effectively a dead technology and most other OSes can be installed
from CD.

How would you install Mint or anything on an Atari without
a floppy ?

Peter