[coLinux-users] CoLinux setup horror again

[Henk A. <al...@co...>]

I needed to upgrade to FC6 on an external USB drive and ran
into a series of typical issues that I encountered with earlier
installations but that I was not able to resolve this time.

1) There is little documentation regarding non DOS devices.
    All examples start with path="\DosDevices\d:\whatever",
    at some point I found that I need to use 
    path="\Device\Harddisk1\Partition2" and so on.
    I can't for the life of me remember where I found this, and
    the Wiki offers no support AFAICT. Does anybody know
    where this comes from so I can understand what I'm doing?
    What base do the indexes have? Ah I just found something 
    in the README.txt, is there more?

2) I want a /etc/fstab that can be used for both dual-booting
    and for colinux. For colinux I need to map /dev/cobd1 to /,
    for dual-booting I need to map /dev/whateverDevice to /.
    Earlier Henry advised me to define an alias and I tried this
    but I could not get it working. Where is the alias syntax
    documented (besides the README.txt)?

3) One extra problem that I have is that this is the first time I set 
    up Fedora with logical volumes. Does colinux support that?
    I expected it to work but it doesn't (for me, yet). I never really 
    used aliases but I think this is what I needed to do without
    logical volumes:
    path="\Device\Harddisk1\Partition2" alias="sdb1"
    I now tried
    path="\Device\Harddisk1\Partition2" alias="VolGroup00/LogVol00"
    This did not work and I'm not sure if I picked the wrong
    alias, wrong disk or whatever. I listed my LVM mappings 
    and /etc/fstab (standard, non-colinux) below.

4) Do I need to execute something like this first:
    for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 do mknod /mnt/hd/dev/cobd$i b 117 $i; done
    before I attempt to start colinux?

The number of traps that a non-expert can fall into, increases
geometrically with the number of problems. So even when each
of these questions is easy to answer (let's say 2 answers possible),
the total number of possibilities with 4 questions is 2**4=16.
There is a lot of information on the Wiki but not much that
explains the fundamentals in a systematic way. I browsed the
rest but could not find what I was looking for. The README.txt
appears to be the best reference I found so far but what I could 
use is some tools that show me how my system is configured
and documentation how to configure colinux in a systematic way.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me,

Henk

LVM mappings:

LVM Volume Groups
  VolGroup00
    LogVol01                  swap   y        896 
    LogVol00    /             ext3   y        37120
Hard drives
  /dev/sda
    /dev/sda1                 ntfs            76011 1      9690
    /dev/sda4                 Foreign         306   9691   9729
  /dev/sdb
    /dev/sdb1   /boot         ext3   y        102   1      13
    /dev/sdb2   VolGroup00    LVM PV y        38052 14     4864

/etc/fstab:

  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /        ext3   defaults       1 1
  LABEL=/boot              /boot    ext3   defaults       1 2
  devpts                   /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
  tmpfs                    /dev/shm tmpfs  defaults       0 0
  proc                     /proc    tmpfs  defaults       0 0
  sysfs                    /sys/fs  sysfs  defaults       0 0
  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap     swap   defaults       0 0