VanillaMiNT
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This is a small and very basic FreeMiNT setup for all Ataris and 
compatibles. You need atleast 6Mb RAM and about 6Mb free space on 
your boot partition.

VanillaMiNT is a pure GEM-based MiNT-install. There is no command-
line or advanced startup-scripts, if this is what you want you have 
to look elsewhere.

- Easy to install.
- Boots straight into XaAES + Teradesk.
- Networking with a GEM-based configuration tool and optional DHCP. 
  No manual editing of configuration files.
- Everything works from a plain TOS partition.


1. Prepare your computer

Disable *everything* in your auto-folder and *all* accessories. The 
only exception is nvdi.prg which required, XaAES will not work with 
the TOS VDI.

If you already have a folder called "MINT" in the root of this drive, 
please delete or rename it.

Please note that if you have non-standard hardware you might have to 
keep drivers/config tools enabled. E.g. graphics card driver, 
Afterburner driver, Hades MMM-tools, FPU emulators... Running order 
matters! You can with some exceptions keep your current running order 
and place MiNT last. The Hades/Milan/Afterburner FPU emulator must 
run *after* mint.prg.


2. Install

- Unpack the downloaded archive. Inside there are several smaller 
  archives, the contents of these will fit on HD floppies for easy 
  transfer to your Atari. Unpack/copy to the root of your boot 
  partition, usually c:.
- IMPORTANT: Use the desktop or a directory sorter to make sure that 
  NVDI is located before mint.prg in the auto-folder.
- If you have an ethernet card - copy the driver for your card to 
  c:\mint\1-19-cur\. No drivers are provided with VanillaMiNT.


3. Reboot

If you followed step 1 and 2 your Atari will now boot MiNT. After 
approximately 30 seconds Teradesk will appear. If it didn't -read 
point 2 and 3 again.

When MiNT has booted and things seems to work, you can set up the
network (if you have any). Please run the "Networking"-tool. This is
a GEM-based tool that will let you set up the network with either
static settings or with DHCP.

If you are using stock video hardware you can change resolution using 
Teradesk, but the selected resolution will be forgotten after the 
next reboot. Use the "Screenmodes"-tool to permanently change 
resolution. Only use this tool if you're using stock hardware! It 
will not work with graphics cards.

You can also enable your accessories and auto-folder programs, but
please beware that many of these aren't needed (like most patching
programs found in the autofolder) and might even crash your Falcon.

Please have a look at the FreeMiNT wiki (http://wiki.sparemint.org/)
for more information about FreeMiNT.

March 24th, 017
Jo Even Skarstein
joska@online.no
http://joska.atari.org