gdanko Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Hi all.. Now that my Falcon is back together I'd like to set it up. It has an internal 2.0 GB drive and I have a reg'd copy of hddriver. How what do I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Um run the program and prep then format the partitions? Kinda like HDToolBox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdanko Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 Um run the program and prep then format the partitions? Kinda like HDToolBox Thats it??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I wouldn't format an internal IDE drive since it's conceivable that it will not withstand a low level format procedure. Therefore it is advisable to partition the drive using the partition menu in the hard disk driver utility program. The program is self explanatory so it should be a straightforward process. I would also suggest that you create one LNX partition should you wish to make a MiNT installation. Falcon's TOS can have up to 1Gb per partition and up to 14 partitions thus enabling the user to have 14Gb available. With MiNT a user can create an ext2 partition and have an almost unlimited amount of data space. Magic on the other hand enables the use of FAT32 partitions but this limits the size of them to 128Gb. I remember reading that this is also the falcon's bus absolute limit for hard disk size but I am unable to verify since I don't have a disk that size. If you find that some things do not work as they should I would suggest contacting Uwe Seimet, the author of hddriver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdanko Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 I wouldn't format an internal IDE drive since it's conceivable that it will not withstand a low level format procedure. Therefore it is advisable to partition the drive using the partition menu in the hard disk driver utility program. The program is self explanatory so it should be a straightforward process. I would also suggest that you create one LNX partition should you wish to make a MiNT installation. Falcon's TOS can have up to 1Gb per partition and up to 14 partitions thus enabling the user to have 14Gb available. With MiNT a user can create an ext2 partition and have an almost unlimited amount of data space. Magic on the other hand enables the use of FAT32 partitions but this limits the size of them to 128Gb. I remember reading that this is also the falcon's bus absolute limit for hard disk size but I am unable to verify since I don't have a disk that size. If you find that some things do not work as they should I would suggest contacting Uwe Seimet, the author of hddriver. If everything is in rom how do I boot MiNT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 In my previous post I referred to a "MiNT installation". MiNT is not in the ROM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdanko Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 In my previous post I referred to a "MiNT installation". MiNT is not in the ROM. I was not clear in my post. How does TOS know to boot MiNT from the HDD? Does it look for a boot sector on the hard disk before booting TOS from ROM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 The MiNT kernel will be installed in an AUTO folder created in your boot partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Meaning that TOS boots first and MiNT loads on top of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 gdanko, you need to learn Atari ST's huh? Yes Mint is like WB. It loads from disk. TOS is like Kickstart. But the ST can boot to GEM with no software for a bare bones setup, where the Amiga needs some files to boot WB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdanko Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 gdanko, you need to learn Atari ST's huh? Yes Mint is like WB. It loads from disk. TOS is like Kickstart. But the ST can boot to GEM with no software for a bare bones setup, where the Amiga needs some files to boot WB. When I had my 520 way back in the day all I did was boot game floppies. So how do I get the MiNT install files to the disk? I don't have a way to transfer large files. Well I do have a NIC but I don't know how to set it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Guitarman Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) You should be able to formay 1.44 floppies on a PC and copy the Falcon factory disks to them. The Falcon will read the PC formatted floppies. The factory disks include MiNT, Hard Drive tools, Language disk, and so on. I know there is a site that has most all ST factory dosks for most all ST models, Falcon included. MultiTOS is the disk that includes MiNT. Atari ST/TT/FalconSystem Disks Edited January 26, 2007 by Guitarman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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