Re: [coLinux-users] colinux & debian etch

[George P B. <geo...@gm...>]

Henry Nestler wrote:
> 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.
>   
I recently tried to follow the debian install steps from the wiki to
create a new etch image, but apparently there are additional
requirements to get it to work for installing.  I don't know at this
point what those requirements are.  I don't know if there's some
command-line we can give it that will allow it to run without udev or if
udev is going to be needed, or if it's an file system that we need
support but don't have.  I haven't gotten that far.  I just know I
wasn't able to follow the steps there to get it working.  I was able to
start with the iso and initrd set, but I wasn't able to mount them (I
tried with aliases and without and I wasn't able to mount them, but
haven't gotten so far as to creating the block devices necessary to see
if that gets around that problem).  This is for trying to great an etch
image file, not for dual-booting, of course.
> 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 saying that he SuSE original kernel was 2.4.21 or that you have an
unofficial colinux patched 2.4.21 kernel?

George