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

[Wolfram W. <Wol...@ek...>]

Henry Nestler schrieb:

> Wolfram Wadepohl wrote:
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>>trying to install debian etch rc2 businesscard image as described in th=
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>>"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=3D"3" path=3D"\DosDevices\i:\initrd" enabled=3D=
"true" />
>>     <bootparams>root=3D/dev/cobd3</bootparams>
>>     <initrd path=3D"initrd.gz" />
>>     <image path=3D"vmlinux" />
>>(...)
>>
>>Every time starting the colinux-daemon i get the error that /dev/codb3 =

>>cannot be mounted.
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> Double check, that you have no typofixies in the config.  cobd and codb=
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> are not the same.
checked an OK
> Double check that, the file exists. Try a "DIR I:\initrd" on same=20
> windows prompt, you starts coLinux.
checked and OK
> Do not run coLinux in a CygWin shell.  Use simple CMD.EXE.
used cmd.exe
> Check, that I:\INITRD is readable file and not on a network.  Copy it t=
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> other dir, for sample under C:\TEMP and use it as C:\TEMP\initrd.
checked and OK
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> Testings under a Linux:
used Knoppix 5.2
> 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
losetup /dev/loop0 initrd
fsck -f /dev/loop0
cannot find ext2 superblock (oroginal output was german)
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> Some distries does ship initrd.gz not as compressed image file. They us=
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> 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=3D/dev/zero of=3Di=
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> ..., mkfs ..., mount -o loop ..., unpack the cpio archive into the=20
> mounted image).
maybe i have to do this ...
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> Last:
> Use an newer coLinux 0.8.0 and run it with option "-v 3".
where can i find this? tried www.colinux.org but could not find a link
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