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

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

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:56 PM, mattias <mj...@mj...> wrote:
> 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...
>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

Hello!
How much of the original message did you read? Or are you trying to
use my thread to respond to someone else?

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Gregg C Levine gre...@gm...
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."