Re: [coLinux-users] 2.4 kernel with 0.6.2?

[gboutwel <gbo...@pr...>]

> Is it possible to run the 2.4 kernal from older releases with
coLinux

> 0.6.2? I have a RH9 image that I use for building RH9 releases
of my



  No, not possible too much has changed for it to be compatible.
 coLinux is still very much in development and testing, until
that settles down there's no way it can provide all the features
folks want & stability enough to be backwards compatible.



  This was MY BAD...  Officially with the release of 0.6.2 support
for the 2.4 kernel has been dropped.  We just don't have the
developer reasources to keep-up 2 kernels.  I've often toyed
with the idea of backporting changes from 0.6.2 to 2.4 (unofficially).
 I've seen a few situations (besides yours where 2.4 was more
or less required) request for such things, but...  



  An possible (although admittedly odd) solution, would be to
run something in colinux 0.6.2 that does alright with the 0.6.2
kernel, then run a 2.4 UML in that which boots your RH9.  I'll
might see if I can produce an 2.4 UML binary that is know to
work in coLinux and put that put on my page (I've had at least
one other person express the need for a 2.4 UML)



> software, but if I run it with the 2.6 kernel included with
0.6.2 then

> the RPM database acts like it is corrupted or unreadable and
I can't

> update or install new packages. (I know that sounds far fetched
but

> I've eliminated everything else...)



Interesting...  I wonder if you compiled the latest RPM version
(ie RPM for like some version of Fedora) for RH9 and installed
it if you'd get around that issue.



> I also tried reinstalling 0.6.1 side-by-side with 0.6.2 but
unfortunatly

> the new TAP drivers don't appear to work with it and so I don't
get a

> network connection in the RH9 guest.



Right, the version of the tap driver changed from 7.0.0.1 to
8.0.0.1 or something like that anyways.  It should be possible
to have both versions installed at the same time.  You'd of course
have to name the TAP connections differently and force the 0.6.1
configuration to use the v7 & the 0.6.2 configurations to use
v8.  And you *most likely* could not run both 0.6.1 & 0.6.2 at
the same time.



George





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