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MKMD: ManuKa's Mint Distribution

Deprecated

MKMD has been replaced by ST Mint, based on Freemint 1.15 which allows much more interesting stuff to work ( ethernet card !) Get the new sd card image at http://subsole.org/st_mint.

ManuKa's Mint Distribution is a Mint Distribution targeting Unix & Linux users who would like to have a free Unix like classical environment for their Atari ST. It is based on the 1995 release of KGMD, so don't expect too much new stuff. The target platform is the 68000 Ataris with 4 MB of RAM, 1GB Ultrasatan SD Card drive, ST High Resolution (recommended), Ethernec network card (optional)

MKMD is distributed in the form of a ready to boot diskimage, to be written to a SD card.

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MKMD version 0.6

Writing the media

After inserting the media in your Ultrasatan device, your ST should boot into MKMD.

How to use

The Unix environment is very similar to the early SunOS 4.1 and BSD 4.3 systems, with GNU file utils, although of course quite slow. It has bash, tcsh, gcc 2.5 and a Minix file system. The SD card image was partitioned with the Atari AHDI driver v 5.0 and contains three partitions of 256 Mb each.

After killing some processes to free RAM, it is is possible to start a very limited X environment:

Components in the distribution

MKMD is based on:

I am working on adding:

Use 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 768M.img