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ST Mint: Opensource Unix for Atari ST

Writing the media

With an emulator

ST Mint: Opensource Unix for Atari ST

ST Mint is a FreeMiNT distribution which provides an opensource Unix environment for the 16/32 bits Atari line of computers.
The target platform are Atari ST(E) and Mist FGPA board with at least 4 MB of RAM, 128MB SD Card drive, ST High Resolution.

St Mint is distributed in the form of a ready to boot disk image, to use for instance with Lotharek's UltraSatan drive

Disk image

Download: ACSI disk image

Writing the media

unzip the SD card image, and write to it a SD card. The card has to be 128MB minimum, and all previous data on the SD card will be erased. How to write the SD card image depends on your platform:

Linux & Unix: follow this tutorial http://askubuntu.com/questions/179437/how-can-i-burn-a-raspberry-pi-image-to-sd-card-from-ubuntu or use dd

Windows: Download the Win32DiskImager program, and follow this tutorial: http://raspi.tv/2012/how-to-make-a-raspberry-pi-disk-image-to-sd-card-with-win32diskimager

OsX: follow this tutorial: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

After inserting the media in your Ultrasatan device, your ST should boot into ST Mint. After booting a 4MB machine, you should have around 1MB of RAM free for applications.

Try out multitasking

After a rather slow boot sequence, you should land on the desktop.
Click on COMMAND.TOS, and 2048.APP and notice the two apps running simultaneously. Such a thing is not possible using the standard Atari TOS.

Try out a Unix Shell

Click on the Desk menu list =⇒ TosWin2 =⇒ File =⇒ Start shell
and enjoy /bin/mksh, a Korn shell clone.
Note that due to the very limited hardware of the ST compared to current standards, you can at most only run simple Unix command line tools.

With an emulator

Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the Hatari emulator, it would be:

hatari --acsi st_mint-1.3.img

What's inside

Atari Hard Disk Driver 5 from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/atari/diskutil/ahdi5.zoo

FreeMiNT 1.19, travis build 3146e5dc

2048.APP from https://ptonthat.fr/two-o-forty-eight/

COMMAND.TOS interpreter from http://download.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/

mksh shell, with patch to run executables on FAT filesystem

GNU Coreutils, crossed compiled by Vincent Riviere from http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/mint/

Minix 3.1 grep and term

Bugs and limitations

See the Roadmap on github.
For General Questions, please use this thread on the Atari Forums
For Bug Reports, use the Contruction Kit Bug Tracker

Last modified:: 2021/05/07 14:29

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