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[coLinux-users] Snapshot 20040910 alongside 0.6.1 ?

[John F. <J.P...@as...>]

Hello

First of all, thank you for coLinux.

I am using coLinux 0.6.1 release with Fedora Core 1 on two 
machines, one with Windows 2000 and one with Windows XP.  I 
am using Tap, and Windows XP bridging on the XP machine.

I would like to try out the new 20040910 snapshot.  Is it possible to 
install it alongside the present packages.  

My guess is that if I execute the 20040910 executable it will try to 
install e.g. Tap software on top of the present installation so I have 
not done that yet.

I have enough disk space to make two completely parallel 2 Gbyte 
installations.

Thanks

John


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Re: [coLinux-users] Snapshot 20040910 alongside 0.6.1 ?

[Nuno L. <lu...@nl...>]

John Fletcher, dando pulos de alegria, escreveu :
> Hello
> 
> First of all, thank you for coLinux.
> 
> I am using coLinux 0.6.1 release with Fedora Core 1 on two 
> machines, one with Windows 2000 and one with Windows XP.  I 
> am using Tap, and Windows XP bridging on the XP machine.
> 
> I would like to try out the new 20040910 snapshot.  Is it possible to 
> install it alongside the present packages.  
> 
> My guess is that if I execute the 20040910 executable it will try to 
> install e.g. Tap software on top of the present installation so I have 
> not done that yet.
> 
> I have enough disk space to make two completely parallel 2 Gbyte 
> installations.

I would suggest you to simply change to the last snapshot. It fixes
several bugs in 0.6.1 (some more serious than others).

You can use the same image with no problems (except the normal ones of
changing from a 2.4 to 2.6 kernel).

The biggest change you'll encounter would be that now the
colinux-daemon.exe needs to have the config file as argument (with "-c
config.xml") and the network adapter is found with a different logic,
but nothing to worry about.

You may also found that the initrd.gz doesn't work for you (it's a know
bug that should be fixed soon), so you will need to compile your modules
or get them here:
http://xpto.ath.cx/colinux/snapshots/modules-2.6.8.1-co-0.6.2-pre1.tar.gz

Regards,
~Nuno Lucas