CT60e Mint

[paul92706]

Hi guy's anyone having trouble installing Mint on there CT60e? i am having issues it for some reason won't install the 2nd phase of installation, it get's threw the 1st phase. On my CT63 it installs flawlessly. please comment on step by step on how you installed it. thanks.

[fidzen]

I have not installed my MINT with the CT60e, but it's working great with it.
I also installed it with the CT63.

[paul92706]

I have not installed my MINT with the CT60e, but it's working great with it.
I also installed it with the CT63.

i don't understand? you don't have or do have Mint installed on CT60e?

[fidzen]

I installed my MINT with a Falcon using CT63.
I then changed my CT63 to a CT60e and MINT works great with that also.
So I have not installed MINT with the CT60e installed in my Falcon.

[Faucon2001]

Paul, I guess you are talking about installing EasyMint?
Because as far as Mint is concerned (nightly builds or vanilla Mint) there is no second phase.
Try to install it in 030 mode first, then update Mint with the latest build.

[paul92706]

Paul, I guess you are talking about installing EasyMint?
Because as far as Mint is concerned (nightly builds or vanilla Mint) there is no second phase.
Try to install it in 030 mode first, then update Mint with the latest build.

Hi Faucon, yes EasyMint. I Tried installing EasyMint in 030 mode and same thing. I don't know much about vanilla Mint?!

[Faucon2001]

I have not tested EasyMint yet with my CT60e, so I won't be able to give a precise help for now.
Be sure to have deactivated everything in your auto and accessories (except xcontrol) when you try to insall, run the installer from TOS (not from Mint or Magic) also you need to properly partitioned C,D and E partitions with hddriver before installing ( C : less than 1GB BIGGEM type , D: 1 GB LNX type, E: and other partitions FAT 32 or whatever you need and the size you need : FAT 32 can be almost any size if you want to use it only under Mint, but limited to 1 GB if you want to access it thru TOS). If after the first reboot, the install doesn't restart automatically you can restart it manually.

Now if you want a simple Mint setup, without the fancy Unix tools and a pure GEM system, VanillaMint is the way to go :
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=31387&hilit=VanillaMint
After the reboot, press shift key to enter Mint.ini config and deactivate the protected memory mode which is activated by default.

[paul92706]

I have not tested EasyMint yet with my CT60e, so I won't be able to give a precise help for now.
Be sure to have deactivated everything in your auto and accessories (except xcontrol) when you try to insall, run the installer from TOS (not from Mint or Magic) also you need to properly partitioned C,D and E partitions with hddriver before installing ( C : less than 1GB BIGGEM type , D: 1 GB LNX type, E: and other partitions FAT 32 or whatever you need and the size you need : FAT 32 can be almost any size if you want to use it only under Mint, but limited to 1 GB if you want to access it thru TOS). If after the first reboot, the install doesn't restart automatically you can restart it manually.

Now if you want a simple Mint setup, without the fancy Unix tools and a pure GEM system, VanillaMint is the way to go :
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=31387&hilit=VanillaMint
After the reboot, press shift key to enter Mint.ini config and deactivate the protected memory mode which is activated by default.

Should NVDI be active in the Auto folder?

[paul92706]

ok i disabled NVDI and Sting in my AUTO folder and i still get the same problem, see picture!

[mikro]

No, don't disable NVDI. :)

You should be more specific. You're saying that the easymint installer depacks the archive, copy stuff into C:\EASYMINT, reboot and nothing happens?

Also, where do you have the archive from? Are you sure your hard disk is OK (can you depack the ZIP archive manually without CRC errors?)

[paul92706]

No, don't disable NVDI.

You should be more specific. You're saying that the easymint installer depacks the archive, copy stuff into C:\EASYMINT, reboot and nothing happens?

Also, where do you have the archive from? Are you sure your hard disk is OK (can you depack the ZIP archive manually without CRC errors?)

Yes i booted with NVDI because i understand it requires it. Ya harddisk seems ok, i get threw first part of installation, which creates the /Mint and EasyMint folders and puts Mint in the Auto Folder. Now after second part of installation i get that screen above posted. And when i unpack from zip archieve i don not get CRC Errors, its ok.

[mikro]

I'm not sure if it's required but have you created a LNX partition in HD Driver?

[paul92706]

I'm not sure if it's required but have you created a LNX partition in HD Driver?

Yup i created a LNX partition at 1022MB

[paul92706]

ok update, i removed the Mechanical HD and installed a CF reader and looks like it worked, Mint was successfully installed. So the HD is the culprid! ayie! little things make a big difference..

[Faucon2001]

Don't tell me, my IDE disk on module seems to have died tonight
So I won't be able to assist you until I find a new one.

[paul92706]

Don't tell me, my IDE disk on module seems to have died tonight
So I won't be able to assist you until I find a new one.

same problem philippe? lol

[joska]

After the reboot, press shift key to enter Mint.ini config and deactivate the protected memory mode which is activated by default.

I recommend to keep memory protection on. If you need to disable it, it means that some software is doing something nasty and you will likely run into trouble. If you need to allow individual applications to poke and peek into other programs' memory (or even worse, into memory owned by no-one!) you can do this by setting the appropriate flags in the program header.

[Rustynutt]

After the reboot, press shift key to enter Mint.ini config and deactivate the protected memory mode which is activated by default.

I recommend to keep memory protection on. If you need to disable it, it means that some software is doing something nasty and you will likely run into trouble. If you need to allow individual applications to poke and peek into other programs' memory (or even worse, into memory owned by no-one!) you can do this by setting the appropriate flags in the program header.

See a "strict" and "lax" setting, no disable. Use to name MiNT to MiNTNP to do this?

[Faucon2001]

MintNP was the old way to do that back to version ... I can't remember, too long ago
Now, it's set up in Mint.ini that you can access at boot by pressing "left shift"
I am not going to argue, Joska is right in principle, memory protection is an important feature, I just beleive that it can be very confusing for not so experimented users ; for example Things crashes like a big poo if you don't set right the memory share flag, and that's not the exception unfortunately. So, a none expert user may give up thinking that VanillaMint is not working.
I confirm, Vanilla Mint works great on the CT60

By the way, I have recovered my IDE DOM, so I am back on track to try to install EasyMint. I'll let you know.

[Rustynutt]

MintNP was the old way to do that back to version ... I can't remember, too long ago
Now, it's set up in Mint.ini that you can access at boot by pressing "left shift"
I am not going to argue, Joska is right in principle, memory protection is an important feature, I just beleive that it can be very confusing for not so experimented users ; for example Things crashes like a big poo if you don't set right the memory share flag, and that's not the exception unfortunately. So, a none expert user may give up thinking that VanillaMint is not working.
I confirm, Vanilla Mint works great on the CT60

By the way, I have recovered my IDE DOM, so I am back on track to try to install EasyMint. I'll let you know.

Been toying with all the config and ini files.
Best I've gotten is MiNT loads to Terradesk, but the SV drivers don't load. Did flash the SV with the V11 files. ABE and SDR are 7's.
Also tried Mirko's UMiNT setup, same thing with MiNT 1.17.
Take MiNT out of the equation, booting to GEM, the SV works fine.
Pretty sure it's when Xaes starts that it's going funny.
Even with MiNT having a 3 second delay, holding down the left shift key isn't doing squat for me, just keeps on booting no matter what point it is running.
If I knew what line to add in the MiNT.ini file, i'd try it there, but that switch isn't in there as far as I can tell.

[Rustynutt]

found the no protection command in another config file
still testing

[Rustynutt]

Progress. Prolly move this to the software section