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

[mattias <mj...@mj...>]

ehm you cant boot real linux with colinux or?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg Levine" <gre...@gm...>
To: <col...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:40 AM
Subject: [coLinux-users] Setting up networking for the Slackware image


> 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.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gre...@gm...
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