Re: [coLinux-users] Installing via debian-40r1-i386-businesscard.iso breaks after popularity-contest config

[Oscar U. <osc...@pr...>]

 OK tried devel-coLinux-20070819.exe, install hangs on "Configuring
popularity-contest" with vc4 saying,

init: Starting pid 6842, console /dev/vc/4: '/usr/bin/tail'
init: Process '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog' (pid 6842) exited.
Scheduing it for restart.

Thanks,
OSC

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Henry Nestler"
  To: "Oscar Usifer"
  Subject: Re: [coLinux-users] Installing via
  debian-40r1-i386-businesscard.iso breaks after popularity-contest
  config
  Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:02:49 +0200


  Oscar Usifer wrote:
  > I am attempting to install 0.6.4-linux-2.6.11 with Debian
  > Etch[*1] according to the wiki instructions[*2] on WinXp Pro[*3].
  > I used fltk console invoked from cmd.exe after starting the
  > colinux service. I was able to get most of the way with "Install
  > the base system", then selected linux-image-2.6-686 at 79%
  > complete. A little later I am prompted for "Configuring
  > popularity-contest" install option which said, "The system may
  > anonymously supply the distribution developers with statistics
  > about the most used packages on this system...." I switched to
  > virtual console 1, and issued the mknod commands to create
  > /target/dev/cobd[0123] block device nodes, and modified
  > /target/etc/fstab. In virtual screen 4, I observed the final
  > lines as follows. Then responding either "Yes" or "No" results in
  > the colinux-daemon crashing without completing the base system
  > install (additional backtrace included below in dpkg.log), at
  > this point the fltk windows console process would detach.

  The coLinux 0.6.4 is not protected to read from /dev/mem. Some new
  distributions tries to read the BIOS strings from this - to get
  info about your hardware. This crashes the linux or some times the
  host.
  A workarrount is to remove the /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /dev/core or
  re-create the nodes with device node 1:3, same as /dev/null.

  In the newer coLinux versions this was fixed:
  http://www.colinux.org/snapshots/

  >
  >
  > enabled=3D"true" />
  >
  > path=3D"\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\swap_device" enabled=3D"true" />
  >
  > path=3D"\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\debian-40r1-i386-businesscard.iso"
  > enabled=3D"true" />
  >
  > path=3D"\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\debian-40r1-initrd" enabled=3D"true" />
  > root=3D/dev/cobd2
  >
  > [IMAGE]
  >
  >
  >
  >

  The new versions have no more the XML config. Have transform it on
  the fly into a simple text file (untested, hope all is right):
  kernel=3Dvmlinux
  cobd0=3Dc:\coLinux\root.fs
  cobd1=3Dc:\coLinux\swap_device
  cobd2=3Dc:\coLinux\debian-40r1-i386-businesscard.iso
  cobd3=3Dc:\coLinux\debian-40r1-initrd
  root=3D/dev/cobd2
  initrd=3Ddebian-40r1-initrd.gz
  mem=3D512
  eth0=3Dtuntap
  eth1=3Dpcap-bridge,"Local Area Connection"

  The new coLinux does also support hda1, so you can replace cobd0
  directly with "hda1=3Dc:\coLinux\root.fs" and so on.

  Complete list of config params founds here:
  http://colinux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/colinux/branches/stable/doc/co=
linux-daemon

  -- Henry

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