Re: [coLinux-users] Later OS images?

[Henry N. <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de>]

Andy Chandler wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm wondering if there are any newere images than the ones on
> sourceforge?  I'd love to find a suse image etc.  The hard part for me is
> that I don't run QEMU which seems to be how these things are bootstrapped.
> I tried using the Debian one and as soon as I upgraded it to a newer version
> of KDE using the APT facilities I managed to mess it up.  I'm about to try
> playing with the fedora core image but any insights are welcomed.

I have also no qemu.  I use a 2 GB native partition and install my SuSE 
in this.  It's hard: You must disable all graphics features and don't 
install KDE in the first install.  If the system is running, copy the 
partition to a file and run it in coLinux.

You can copy it directly under your running SuSE, but better you starts 
knoppix for that.  Mount a USB disk or a FAT partition, than run such 
command line:
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo   # fill all empty sectors with 0
   rm /tmp/foo
   dd if=/dev/hda2 | bzip2 > /mount/to/usbdisk/rootfs.img.bz2
In this sample hda2 was the 2GB partition, that I have used for SuSE 
installation.  This will be stored as compressed image.  If you have 
enought space, than save the file without bzip2.

My latest image was SuSE 9.3 without graphics (no KDE, no Gnome).

Than view into the wiki 
http://wiki.colinux.org/wiki/Converting_Distributions

Change in the image file the /etc/fstab and remove all /boot and 
/lib/modules.

If you can't boot this image file under coLinux, add this bootparms
   init 1
This will not run all the SuSE stuff and you can run it step by step to 
the next runlevel (init 2, init 3).

Or if totaly not runs, add to the bootparms
   init=/bin/sh

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Henry Nestler