Re: [coLinux-users] using 2.6 kernels, moving to latest coLinux snapshot, etc.

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

Joe Wells wrote:
> Hi, Henry and George!
> 
> Thank you both very much for your helpful explanations!
> There was one bit I didn't understand fully:
> 
>>>I noticed from an earlier message that there is a build of the
>>>2004-07-19 version from the monotone repository available at
>>>http://firechief.dyndns.org/colinux/>. Does this version fix
>>>the problems?
>>
>>This version doesn't provide any gettimeofday fixes that aren't
>>in 0710.  It does include an fix for memory allocation that
>>reportedly
>>speeds-up boot time, and an fix for situations where starting
>>up sometimes resulted in an cannot connect to pipe errors.  It's
>>an build of monotone's 07/17/2004 changes (which where what was
>>there on 07/19/2004) when I built that version to give to an
>>guy experiencing an odd problem.  Oddly enough the build fixed
>>his problem, so I left it up and have recommended to several
>>people experiencing problems to try it.  It's not an OFFICIAL
>>snapshot/release or otherwise.  It's just the latest sources
>>on 07/19 compiled, and archived in to an archive.  It doesn't
>>even have an installer.  You will probalby want to/need to install
>>0710 as a pre-requisite to running this version if you wish to
>>try it.
> 
> 
> Why would I need to install the 2004-07-10 snapshot?  Here is what I
> think I need to do:
> 
>   * mkdir '/c/Program Files/coLinux/0.6.2-gbp-2004-07-19'
>   * cp coLinux-0.6.2-gpb.tar.bz2 '/c/Program Files/coLinux/0.6.2-gbp-2004-07-19'
>   * cd '/c/Program Files/coLinux/0.6.2-gbp-2004-07-19'
>   * tar xfj coLinux-0.6.2-gpb.tar.bz2
>   * stop coLinux
>   * cd ..
>   * colinux-daemon --remove-driver
>   * cd 0.6.2-gbp-2004-07-19
>   * colinux-daemon --install-driver
>   * cp ../gentoo-i686-ext3-4g.colinux.xml .
>   * ln -s ../gentoo-i686-ext3-4g .
>   * ln -s ../swap_256Mb .
>   * colinux-daemon -c gentoo-i686-ext3-4g.colinux.xml
>   * hope that it boots okay
> 
> What would go wrong with this?  Why would I need to have installed the
> 2004-07-10 snapshot first in order for this to work?

Oh, sorry, coLinux-0.6.2-gpb.tar.bz2 on this server contains Windows 
EXE-files!
Because this archive have no installer, you need an installed version, 
before copy new executable files over an installed version.

And a versions switch under Windoes need
   colinux-daemon.exe --remove-driver
   colinux-daemon.exe --install-driver
   colinux-daemon -c config.xml
to run run new version.

The remove option must not run from old executable, it's runs also from 
new executable.

This should do only better testers. Because it's dificould for newbies.

Henry