Marcel Gagné

Hallo! They say that you should put your strangest statement at the top of a letter to guarantee that your letter gets read all the way through; so here goes - I found your name and web page by looking for Linux versions for Atari.

I grew up very sheltered (but impovrished) in the world of that famously expensive operating system that is published by a company in Redmond. I am very much a newbie at Linux, but I am also an academic and a glutton for punishment, so I have picked out a project to take me through the inner world of Linux: I want to get Linux to run on my Atari ST.

I have found some good resources on the web, but I am sure that I will need to ask questions now and again! (Anybody care to jump in this together?)

Here are some starters.

One how-to online says to use rawwrite.ttp to unpack some .bin files for a "rescue disk." Question: on what OS does rawwrite.ttp run? Is it for the Atari TOS, for Windows or for Linux?

How does one enter command lines on the Atari TOS? (Sorry, most of my Atari experience is 8bit).

Also, should restore disks like resc1440bin be bootable from most emulators? (I like WinSTon.) Should the TOS image be attached? (Would the TOS OS be ignored when booting from disk?)

I imagine there is a document in somebody's garage that would answer most or all of these questions. I would be most grateful if someone could respond with a link, and copy of such a document or answers to some of the individual questions.

THANKS!

Steven in Pelham, AL, USA