Re: [coLinux-users] cannot install debian from iso

[Henry N. <Hen...@Ar...>]

Wolfram Wadepohl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> trying to install debian etch rc2 businesscard image as described in the 
> "colinx: Install debian From Iso" every attempt failed.
> 
> I've extracted initrd.gz from iso iamge and unpacked to initrd.
> My colinux.xml look like:
> (...)
>      <block_device index="3" path="\DosDevices\i:\initrd" enabled="true" />
>      <bootparams>root=/dev/cobd3</bootparams>
>      <initrd path="initrd.gz" />
>      <image path="vmlinux" />
> (...)
> 
> Every time starting the colinux-daemon i get the error that /dev/codb3 
> cannot be mounted.

Double check, that you have no typofixies in the config.  cobd and codb 
are not the same.
Double check that, the file exists. Try a "DIR I:\initrd" on same 
windows prompt, you starts coLinux.
Do not run coLinux in a CygWin shell.  Use simple CMD.EXE.
Check, that I:\INITRD is readable file and not on a network.  Copy it to 
other dir, for sample under C:\TEMP and use it as C:\TEMP\initrd.

Testings under a Linux:
Copy the file i:\initrd into a Linux, and try to mount it as loop:
   mount -o loop,ro initrd /mnt
Check the filesystem of the file initrd:
   fsck -f initrd

Some distries does ship initrd.gz not as compressed image file. They use 
a CPIO archicves.  CPIO can not use as cobd.  You need to transform it 
into an image file (create an empty image with dd if=/dev/zero of=image 
..., mkfs ..., mount -o loop ..., unpack the cpio archive into the 
mounted image).

Last:
Use an newer coLinux 0.8.0 and run it with option "-v 3".

-- 
Henry