Re: [coLinux-users] is it possible?

[Doctor B. <do...@gm...>]

Yes.  Of course gentoo is possible.  You can either download an image
file, or you can bootstrap with the coLinux tools.  Note:  I do not
know if the coLinux tools will work with the bleeding edge version of
Colinux 0.6.2-pre4.  I try to keep my system at stable levels, so the
next version of the coLinux tools will probably be released 5-7 days
after the 0.6.2 release.  I'm looking forward to the update in
coLinux, as it will use the 2.6 kernels.

I include bootstrapping instructions for installing gentoo with the
coLinux tools.  It should be pretty easy, if the networking works.

The X performance is not that great, but it isn't too bad either.  It
depends on your perspective.  You probably aren't going to play an
games over the X11 connection, but you should have no problems doing
things like web browsing and reading e-mail.  However, unless you
samba mount your windows directories, all you downloaded mail will be
saved on your virtual machine.  That might not be what you want.  One
viable alternative to samba mounting is to copy data with tar to a
block device.  With 0.6.1 I tend to experience file system errors
eventually do to improper shutdowns when I forget and logout of
Windows or such.  So occasionally backing up the data to a tar file
under windows is a very good idea.

                                      Bill





On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:32:09 +0200, Holger Krull <hol...@gm...> wrote:
> > Is it possible to install colinux on winxp, and use kmail
> > (kontakt) or evolution as mail client?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Is the network transparent for the mail client?
> 
> If you set it up that way.
> 
> > What about the X performance?
> 
> Usable. Feels like 10Mbit even over a 100MBit line. Latency still high.
> Using lbx makes things better a bit.
> 
> > Has anybody tried it with Gentoo? Any install guide? (Sorry,
> > I like Gentoo)
> 
> > How much disk space is required?
> 
> Depends on home much space your gentoo setup needs.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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