Re: [coLinux-users] Gentoo woes

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Zachary Kline wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm experiencing some serious trouble trying to get the 2005.1 image of=

> Gentoo to work.  It seems to not have /dev/cobd devices, for whatever
> reason,

Did you see example.conf ?

I'm using these parameters:

kernel=3Dvmlinux
cobd0=3Df:\coLinux\Gentoo-2005.1-stage3-ext3
cobd1=3Df:\coLinux\fs_512Mb.swap
root=3D/dev/cobd/0
mem=3D256
eth0=3Dslirp,00:07:00:01:02:03,tcp:10022:22/tcp:5901:5901

It booted fine, but there are a couple of details to make networking and =
sshd
work: dhcp did strange things but I seem to have messed it using a fixed =
address
first; sshd needs some missing devices, pty and ptmx.

> and booting into a static dev isn't helpful because I don't have
> any way to add swap.
> Also, udev fails unable to create the cobd devices, claiming a lack of
> space. =20

I haven't used udev and IIRC it's not supported yet in coLinux 0.7.1 .

> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Ren=E9 Berber