Re: [coLinux-users] Starting / Running CoLinux as service

[Holger K. <hol...@gm...>]

neoborn schrieb:
> colinux-daemon.exe kernel=vmlinux initrd=initrd.gz mem=64
> cobd0=Fedora5-2gb.ext3 cobd1=swap.img cofs0=C:\Temp eth0=slirp
> root=/dev/cobd0 fastboot nogui 
>  
> But if I try to launch it via the batch.bat I get an error: 
>  
> C:\coLinux>colinux-daemon.exe -t nt -c neo.colinux.xml 
> Cooperative Linux Daemon, 0.7.1 
> Compiled on Mon Jan 1 03:59:29 2007 
>  
> XML configuration files are obsolete. Please pass command line 
> options, or use '@' to pass a command-line compatible configuration 
> file (e.g. @config.txt) 

The error message can't get any clearer. Colinux does not use xml files
any more. So don't use them.
Whatever is in your batch.bat will not work.


> Also why would you want to run this as a service?

To access colinux even if nobody is logged in on Windows. Or to run a
service that has to always on, like a dhcpd and named.


> Is it possible to have
> the screen look the same as a regular Linux tty screen ( i.e. all black
> maximized text window?)? which would look like a full screen dos window.

yes. Use -t nt and just press ALT ENTER (you can make a shortcut to
cmd.exe that starts fullscreen). Or login with putty and make it fullscreen.