From: Jan H. <bu...@uc...> - 2002-10-09 15:00:16
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:48:28AM +0100, David Coulson wrote: > > > Anuradha Vaidyanathan wrote: > >hello, > > i am trying to install UML and I am supposed to have tar files > >from somplace but I dont see any (im getting sources for rpm). the > >documentation didnt help in this case -- any suggestions about where I can > >get tarred and compressed files as opposed to simply compressed files? and > >Im new to all this (and I plan to hack this, what am i thinking? )so, > >thats my excuse. > > You can get everything you need to install UML from: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-sf.html No, you need the kernel too. It's on ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/kernel/ > I'm not entirly sure what you mean by 'simply compressed files' - There > is the main kernel patch, which is distributed as a gzip/bzip2ed diff > and there are the filesystem images, which are also compressed. The only > tarball I know of for UML is the uml_utilities distribution, which you > will also need to obtain. > > If you want an RPM, you can get > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/user-mode-linux/user_mode_linux-2.4.19.5um-0.i386.rpm > > However, if you're wanting to hack UML, you're much better off just > downloading the source code and building it by hand - I'm not sure if > there is a spec file anywhere for building RPMs from it though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bu...@uc...> |