Re:[coLinux-devel] Re: CoLinux and Distros ?

[Ian L. <Ian...@mq...>]

Hello Dan,

> Primarily, the requirement is creating a root block file system (using 
> the loopback block device), while changing the disto to use newly added 
> devices nodes /dev (cobd0, cobd1, etc...) instead of the /dev/hd* nodes.
> 
> The closest examples for this now are the file system images distributed 
> with User Mode Linux. However, these images sometimes miss the /dev/console 
> node which causes the init process to fail (this also happens with the  
> regular non-UML Linux kernel). Creating that node fixes the problem.

I've just whipped thru the docs again; is there any info on the devices
and their numbering.  Are they literally the same as the UML distros?


> Yesterday I was under the impression that the binaries are stable enough 
> to be released. I hope to release some example binaries soon, so you 
> and the others can experiment with it.

This would be good.  I have never had to build a CYGWIN dev 
environment .. this would save a lot of time - methinks.  Would the
binary bits be GPL?




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Ian Latter
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