Re: [coLinux-devel] Is there a way to increase total memory?

[Michael H. <hal...@ho...>]

Jonathan,

  Have you tried to make the 4 gig file?  If so what did you do in order to 
format it?  I have not been able to do so sucessfully.

Mike


>From: Jonathan Ballard <sac...@ya...>
>To: Michael Haller <hal...@ho...>,  coLinux Development 
><col...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Is there a way to increase total memory?
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:01:55 -0800 (PST)
>
> > Is there an easy way to increase total memory?  29MB
>just isn't enough to
>do
> > anything graphical.
>
>An easy way?  Okay:
>
>* shutdown coLinux  [ "shutdown -h now" ]
>* change directory to your coLinux installation  [
>C:\coLinux by default ]
>* copy "Debian-3.0.r0.ext3.1gb" to "cobd.1"
>* copy "default.colinux.xml" to "colinux.xml"
>* edit colinux.xml to add device index #1, like:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><colinux>
>     <block_device index="0"
>path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb"
>enabled="true">
>     </block_device>
>     <block_device index="1"
>path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\cobd.1"
>enabled="true">
>     </block_device>
>     <bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>
>     <image path="vmlinux"></image>
></colinux>
>
>* startup coLinux-daemon with the new config  [
>"colinux-daemon -d -c
>colinux.xml" ]
>* login as root
>* $ mkdir /mnt/cobd1
>* $ mkfs.ext3 /dev/cobd1
>* $ mount /dev/cobd1 /mnt/cobd1
>* $ cd /mnt/cobd1
>* $ dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=262144
>   [ 1024*bs*256=256MB
>swapfile ]
>* edit /etc/fstab and add entries for cobd1 and the
>swapfile in mount order,
>like:
>
>/dev/cobd0 / ext2 defaults 0 1
>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>/dev/cobd1 /mnt/cobd1 ext2 defaults 0 2
>/mnt/cobd1/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0
>
>* $ mount -a
>* $ swapon -a
>
>If you used my numbers, you have an extra 256MB of
>memory.  Since coLinux
>runs on NT, there is no need to format a swap
>partition or device unless you
>need the extra speed with raw access.  The swapfile
>should perform
>practically the same as a swap device.   And, you can
>use the extra rest of
>cobd1 as a regular mounted drive with a swapfile.
>
>If you want a larger cobd1 filesystem before you make
>cobd1, from NT:
>
>copy
>Debian-3.0.r0.ext3.1gb+Debian-3.0.r0.ext3.1gb+Debian-3.0.r0.ext3.1gb+Debian-
>3.0.r0.ext3.1gb cobd.1
>
>That would give you a 4GB device.
>
>I thought I would make a utitility to do these steps
>easier.  Still
>thinking...
>
>
>
>
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