colinux-devel

[coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[<pau...@ya...>]

Hello Dan,

could you provide some information on how the Debian
root image was created? I would like to use a smaller
filesystem image (1 GB is kind of big, at least to my
notebook :-) so any directions on how to do that are
welcome.

Thank you

Paulo Silva

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Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[andre <avb...@gm...>]

Don't know how he did it with Debian but generic it is something like this

mount -t vfat /devhda /mnt/windows
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/windows/colinux/new.img count=X
mkfs.ext3 /mnt/windows/colinux/new.img
mount -t ext3 /mnt/windows/colinux/new.img /mnt/image -o loop

Than install colinux kernel and other software in /mnt/image

you could also install Debain in a harddisk partition and move the partition 
with
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/windows/colinux/harddisk.img

Or you can do a lin4win installation and just start the resulting linuxsys.img 
instead of Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb and hope it works (It did with Mandrake 9.2)

ps. install another editor besides vi because windows closes the 
colinux-console window when you press ESC. Atleast it does that on my 
computer.

Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[John L. <jo...@su...>]

>ps. install another editor besides vi because windows closes the 
>colinux-console window when you press ESC. Atleast it does that on my 
>computer.
>
>  
>
Or you could install sshd and then you don't have to worry about the 
console at all, unless networking isn't working...

John

Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[andre <avb...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 20:44, John LeSueur wrote:
> >ps. install another editor besides vi because windows closes the
> >colinux-console window when you press ESC. Atleast it does that on my
> >computer.
>
> Or you could install sshd and then you don't have to worry about the
> console at all, unless networking isn't working...
>
> John

But than you have to have ssh installed on windows to. Also it makes editing 
you network settings a bit hard when you don't have a connection. Neither of 
those two are big problems but it maybe better to solve if possible the 
behaviour of colinux-console

Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[Ballard J. <sac...@ho...>]

From: "andre" <avb...@gm...>
>
> ps. install another editor besides vi because windows closes the
> colinux-console window when you press ESC. Atleast it does that on my
> computer.

Do an "apt-get install telnetd" and then from your main system you can use
telnet.  You'll probally want to set "TERM=vt100" and do a
"setterm -initialize" afterwords.  Works good and is faster.

Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[Szalai F. <sz...@ei...>]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:16, andre wrote:

> you could also install Debain in a harddisk partition and move the partition 
> with
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/windows/colinux/harddisk.img

here may come the 'debootstap' to install the base system to specified
directory as root.

-- 
Regards
Feri

Re: [coLinux-devel] root filesystem image

[Dan A. <da...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:58:41PM -0300, Paulo Silva wrote:
> Hello Dan,
> 
> could you provide some information on how the Debian
> root image was created? I would like to use a smaller
> filesystem image (1 GB is kind of big, at least to my
> notebook :-) so any directions on how to do that are
> welcome.

I took an existing Debian root file system from User Mode Linux's
sourceforge page and made slight modifications for it to work. That
image's initial size was about 60MB.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@gm...