Re: [coLinux-users] colinux & debian etch

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

baldyeti wrote:
> Hello, I currently have colinux 0.6.3 setup to boot
> my HD-installation of debian sarge. What I really
> like and (as far as i can tell) only colinux can offer
> is the ability to run the very same linux i can start
> via dual-boot, not just an image. That's neat.
> Now sarge is aging, and i'd like to either upgrade or
> re-install the recently released etch version.
> I am wondering, though, if this has a chance to keep
> on working with the older kernel official colinux uses?
> Would a snapshot of 0.7.1 or even 0.8 be required to
> run an etch install (particularly wrt udev).

I'm not known about Debian versions and kernel depencies.
 From my installations I know coLinux 0.6.4, 0.7.1 and 0.8.x runs on a 
Debian Woody.

The coLinux limit is only, you should have the same binaries for 
Windows, the Linux kernel and the modules. Your system binaries (under 
/bin, /sbin and so) can be different.
Unpack the Modules vmlinux-modules.tar.gz from new colinux under 
/lib/modules/2.6.12-co-0.7.1, this is the only upgrade you need in your 
dual boot.

CoLinux versions 0.6.4, 0.7.1 and 0.8.0 runs also on my SuSE 9.0 dual 
boot with an original 2.4.21 kernel.  From my SuSE I know, that you can 
run every coLinux on an older distry.  For very old distries with kernel 
2.4.x you need to upgrade only the module-init-tools with fallback for 
2.4-kernels.

You can not run a new coLinux Windows (*.exe) with an older coLinux 
kernel from an other build.  Eatch coLinux release Version supports only 
exactly one kernel version.

-- 
Henry