[coLinux-devel] Working great!

[Ben L. <lev...@ya...>]

Wow, excellent project!

It took me a tiny bit of tweaking but I now have a
great, working, seemingly stable copy of debian
working on my Win2000 box at work.

I installed the TAP driver, and then in "Network and
Dial-up Connections", I opened "Local Area
Connection", clicked Properties, then clicked
"Sharing", then Enabled Internet Connection Sharing.

I also had to edit a few files in the default debian
image to get things working.  (Using the 20040210
version of colinux.)

In /etc/network/interfaces, I changed the line that
read:
   auto lo eth0
to
   iface lo inet loopback

I created /etc/hosts with these 3 lines:
127.0.0.1     localhost colinux
192.168.0.40  colinux
192.168.0.1   windows

Then networking worked right.  (Not being able to ping
localhost was bugging me. :]  )

I then ran apt-get update, and then apt-get install'd
a bunch of stuff, including X, vnc, etc.  It all
works!

I sheepishly must admit that I haven't grabbed the
coLinux source, so it's probably an easy fix I could
make, but one change that would make me even happier
would be if starting the colinux-daemon did _not_
start the console.  I have it up and running with an
ssh server, so I don't feel the need to use the
console.  It just gets in the way until I disconnect
it.  It seem like it would be so easy for users to
start up the console if they want it, that there's no
need to make it auto-start...  

Anyway, thanks very much!  It works great!

Ben


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