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

[Joe W. <sl...@bl...>]

Henry Nestler <Hen...@ar...> writes:

> 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?
> >>
> >>...  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.

I'm confused.  Why do I need to copy the files over an installed
version?  I plan to put the files in a separate directory.  Is there
anything that will go wrong with my plan (see the steps of my plan
above)?

Why would I need an "installer"?

> 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.

Yes, all of these steps are listed in my plan above.

> The remove option must not run from old executable,

I thought the --remove-driver option *must* be run from the *old*
colinux-daemon.exe and the --install-driver option *must* be run from
the *new* colinux-daemon.exe.  Now I am really confused.

> it's runs also from new executable.
> 
> This should do only better testers. Because it's dificould for newbies.

Thanks a lot for all of your help.  I hope I will be able to
understand this.

-- 
Joe