Requirements
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- Falcon030 with CT60 with EtherNAT connected

- NVDI or fVDI installed

- some free space on your boot drive

Installation
============

Installation is quite simple. The most "advanced" part is the setting of your
IP address etc. So here is the step by step tutorial:

1. Archive/move your old AUTO into some other place, except the AUTO/NVDI.prg,
we need it!

2. I assume you've already depacked this archive somewhere so copy AUTO,
GEMSYS, MINT and TOOLS directories and the file ethernat.inf into your boot
drive (let's assume it's C:)

3. Assure NVDI.prg is *before* MINT1xx.prg ! This can be shown by choosing
"Unsorted" option in TOS menu.

4. Start c:\tools\qed\qed.app (or your favorite text editor) and open file
c:\mint\1-17-cur\mint.cnf

5. Search for "exec ifconfig" line

6. Change the IP, netmask and gateway to values which fit to your network (or
leave them as they are if they are OK for you -- the most important thing is
that gateway)

7. Open file c:\mint\etc\resolv.con and change the IP address to the nameserver
(DNS) you normally use. The value shown there may work as well, tough.

8. Save everything, quit the text editor and reboot!

9. You should be in the TeraDesk environment and be able to connect to
www.atari.org via HighWire :)

Troubleshooting
===============

There shouldn't be any problems but you never know.

- at first check if during the boot was everything OK. You can press shift when
FreeMiNT kernel loads (there's 2s pause for that) and choose "step by step
boot" -- this should show any trouble

- if boot ok, start toswin2 from desktop and choose "start shell" from menu;
then write 'ifconfig'; you should see "en0" device present + your IP, netmask
etc

- if ifconfig seems ok, try ping your gateway ('ping 192.168.1.1' for example)

- if ping gateway ok, try ping some other (public) site, for example 'ping
www.atari.org'

- now you should see the trouble, most probably nameserver is badly set

- in case the kernel is unstable, behaving strange and you think your hardware
is ok, try to boot mint116.prg (rename mint116.prx to prg and mint117 from prg
to prx) -- this is the kernel from EasyMiNT, it lacks some features but has
different keyboard / mouse handler and contains different (original by Nature
guys; the 1.17 version is a patched one) ethernat driver for example

Extra note
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In the c:\mint\1-xx-cur you can find various disabled modules (module ends with
'x' instead of 'f' or 'd') -- these are for serial and parallel ports,
activation of SLIP and PLIP protocols and NFS (network file system) module as
well. If you don't need anything like that, you can safely delete them. If you
do, download (or browse) complete FreeMiNT source code from
http://sparemint.org, there's also detailed explanation of all mentioned
things, it's far beyond the scope of this "distribution". I just wanted to
include them if you aren't able to compile them by yourself.

Speeding up boot process
========================

You can edit c:\mint\1-17-cur\xaaes\xaaes.cnf and change 'video = 27' to
'video = 26' for example, this will set 16 colors instead of 256. Or, if you
want 256 colors but not the fancy textures, you can delete/rename IMG directory
-- textures wont load then.

Apropo changing resolution: if you want to change it on the fly, always use 
XaAES dialog for this -- the one in TeraDesk doesn't work very well on Falcon. 
XaAES dialog can be found in XaAES -> Process -> Task Manager -> Change 
Resolution. Or you can use CTRL + ALT + R key combo.

Memory violation error
======================

If you see something like that, this is not an error of FreeMiNT nor XaAES. 
This means the application did not properly allocate memory and it is using 
forbidden memory area. If it's possible, contact the author of such
application and tell him his application needs some clean up ;) If it isn't
possible, you can choose "Enable memory protection: NO" in the FreeMiNT boot
process (hold SHIFT during the boot).

What about Samba, ftp command line client, DHCP, ... ?
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http://easymint.atari.org :) Goal of this "distribution" is to connect your
Falcon to the Internet, mentioned things require wider installation, preferably
with ext2 partition, more configuration files etc...
