[coLinux-users] Setting up networking for the Slackware image

[Gregg L. <gre...@gm...>]

Hello!
The Slackware one comes with this configuration file:
# The kernel image
kernel=vmlinux
#
# The root filesystem
cobd0=Slackware-13.0-512mb.ext3
#
# Tell the kernel where / is located
root=/dev/cobd0
#
# Tell the kernel to mount / read-only
ro
#
# A swap file
#cobd1=swapfile
# or
# A swap partition (it's my /dev/sda8 on plain Linux)
#sda8=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition6
#
# Amount of memory available for coLinux
#mem=256
#
# Console size
#cocon=120x40
#
# Your default Windows partition (uncomment and also uncomment/edit /etc/fstab)
#cofs0=C:\
#
# Networking
eth0=slirp

And as you can see the networking entry is filled. But what happens
next? (Pardon me that was done.) Ideally I need to install extra
packages to make things work.

However the network utilities packages are not present. Entering the
ftp command at the prompt gets me the complaint that it does not
exist.

Now since Slackware is the distribution that I run normally, I could
mount the uncompressed image over a loopback mount and retrieve the
packages I need and install them that way. And yes install Slackware
13.0 on a native device, read an IDE drive for another machine first.
But that throws out the ideal behind this method of running Linux.
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