Re: [coLinux-devel] Installing regular distribution CDs

[Pat E. <pat...@ma...>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:56:22 +0200
Nir Perry <ni...@em...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Regarding the patch (fdisk) - could be true, I didn't check that... anyone
> can add on this one ?
> 
> Regarding the CDs - I don't think the distribution makers have to change
> anything - all the fake hardware works as is. All but that "cobd0" device
> driver, as mentioned.
> 
> Regarding the kernel - I think most distributions would work just fine with
> the colinux as a kernel (based on the original kernel.org version, and not
> the one of the distribution). In the past, I have used the generic kernel on
> several distributions without any problem.
> We could also precompile some kernels with the colinux patch, and some of
> the patches used by specific distributions, and make those available instead
> of full disk images.
> 
> I think it is better to make colinux work out-of-the-box on available
> distributions, without a need to modify them. There are way too many of
> them. Best way is to be as close as possible to the "generic" kernel in
> behavior.
> 
> Nir
> 


if it got to the point that no patches were needed to the kernel, I believe that we could boot any os that supports the host arch.

Pat Erley

(not saying that this is a bad thing, but I believe it's 'signifigantly harder' than what we're working with now)