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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: MintOS init package...
- Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 10:31:23 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <9405061831.AA03269@telle.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> from "Scott Kolodzieski" at May 6, 94 02:31:19 pm
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- >Hello fellow MiNTs,
- >
- >I am thinking of installing the MiNTos init package on my TT, but thought of
- >asiking a few questions first. My main concern is what code gets launched in
- >the standard auto-folder way, and what gets started from rc/rc.local. Someone
- >in c.s.a.st posted that it was possible to start multitos from a console shell
- >in a fairly strait foward manner. My qwuestions are:
- >
- >1. Where/when should I start my nova graphics driver, I assume before control
- >passes to "init". probably in my auto folder as it is now.
- >
- >2. Where/when should speedo be run?
- >
- >3. Where/when should Outside (virtual memory manager) be run? Again I believe
- >this should done before control passes to "init".
-
- All three should be run before MiNT is started, I believe.
-
- Myself, I don't run GEM when I run MiNT, ie. I boot as normal without GEM
- and then run MiNT as a TOS process, which then starts init etc. etc. etc.
-
- >Do most people that are using MintOS log into a shell, then only start gem.sys
- >when they need? Can you quite gem.sys (AES 4.0) and return to the console?
-
- Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one.
-
- >any help will be appreciated.
- >
- >cheers,
- >scott.
-
- Steve
-
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