Re: [coLinux-users] newbie trying to get started with colinux

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

alex wallis wrote:
> Hi.
> My name is Alex. I recently found out about colinux on another mailing list.
> Am I right in thinking that colinux takes up a lot less resources than say 
> running vmware?
> I'm writing because I have installed colinux, I have downloaded one of the 
> distribution options given in the installer, but now i'm not really sure 
> where to start with getting everything working.
> I have successfully extracted the image that the installer downloaded.
> I was also wondering in the ubuntu image I have downloaded is that just a 
> basic file system? or does it include packages such as orca.
> Sorry for all the questions.
> I did try to check the wiki but the site seems to be down at the moment.

Yust in the moment, the wiki is online.

The image files in installer are perhaps a liddle outdated. So, it is
very goot, you have downloaded a more recent image from sf.net.

If you have downloaded and unpacked the Ubuntu image, than should follow
the notes from
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=544248&group_id=98788
That contains all you need to run the Ubuntu. In the end you have a
minimal Linux system, that is usable to install more packages in same
way, as you installed Ubuntu nativly. The packages are not in the
filesystem. Ubuntu use an online repository.

The difference between VMware and coLinux is mainly, that coLinux does
no needs to emulate any hardware, and coLinux is very fair with memory
usage. You can run coLinux with 128MB for simple text consoles. And if
Linux give free some memory, than coLinux give that free to toe host.

Here is one of my fast booted coLinux
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/screenshoots/bootchart-async-38sec.png,
that is a SuSE9.0 standard installation on a partition, used as dual
boot and coLinux. VMware would not good run on this machine (256MB total
RAM). More faster boots are Debian 3.0 or latest ArchLinux.

-- 
Henry N.