Creating bootable freemint harddrive in Hatari for use on a real ST(E).
Posted: 12 Jul 2021 21:09
I'm doing this on my Mac but the instructions can be altered for Linux. Windows? No idea. :D
Stuff within code blocks are terminal commands, with pund/hash for prompt:
Create blank file:
Configure CPU and memory:
I’m going with 68030@32 in this case since it’ll take forever to extract the files otherwise.
Set up Hatari to use this file as ACSI HD Image (Settings -> Disks). Also add a gemdos drive for transfering, ~/Atari/a in my case. Copy stzip and freemint.zip to this directory.
Partition drive. There are guides for this on the interwebz. Just create 4 partitions (due to Gemdos-drive assigning G:).
Using stzip extract freemint.zip to C:. Add HD-driver (HDDriver is my goto, got several licenses) to your C-drive, if you’re not using EMUTOS.
Find your target media:
Unmount your the disk.
Clone disk:
Eject:
Pop the media into your real hardware! And boot!
Additional:
If you're setting up your environment you'll just need to clone the first partition of your drive, if you need to test it out on real hardware. Add count=<size of c: +1> to the clone command. Why +1? Just want to be sure that the full partition is written: more is more.
And I've added a 7z file of the st/ste freemint installation as well. This will unpack to 8GB. (Hopefully it'll work, haven't tried this exact one out.)
Edit: It worked. Oh, and the supplied image is WITHOUT HDDRIVER, get your own licenses.
Stuff within code blocks are terminal commands, with pund/hash for prompt:
Code: Select all
# command goes hereCode: Select all
# dd if=/dev/zero of=new.img bs=1m count=8192I’m going with 68030@32 in this case since it’ll take forever to extract the files otherwise.
Set up Hatari to use this file as ACSI HD Image (Settings -> Disks). Also add a gemdos drive for transfering, ~/Atari/a in my case. Copy stzip and freemint.zip to this directory.
Partition drive. There are guides for this on the interwebz. Just create 4 partitions (due to Gemdos-drive assigning G:).
Using stzip extract freemint.zip to C:. Add HD-driver (HDDriver is my goto, got several licenses) to your C-drive, if you’re not using EMUTOS.
Find your target media:
Code: Select all
# diskutil list
Code: Select all
# diskutil unmountdisk /dev/diskXCode: Select all
# sudo dd if=new.img of=/dev/diskX bs=1024kCode: Select all
# diskutil eject /dev/diskXAdditional:
If you're setting up your environment you'll just need to clone the first partition of your drive, if you need to test it out on real hardware. Add count=<size of c: +1> to the clone command. Why +1? Just want to be sure that the full partition is written: more is more.
And I've added a 7z file of the st/ste freemint installation as well. This will unpack to 8GB. (Hopefully it'll work, haven't tried this exact one out.)
Edit: It worked. Oh, and the supplied image is WITHOUT HDDRIVER, get your own licenses.