Re: [coLinux-devel] RedHat on coLinux ?

[Sugree P. <su...@hp...>]

I am using coLinux with RedHat 9.0. If you want to try (49 MB):

http://amata.cpe.ku.ac.th/~sugree/dload/colinux/redhat-9.0.ext3.1gb.bz2

It contains only based packages. Man is installed but no man pages for APIs
at all. Anyway, you can use apt-get to install anythings you want easily.
The pre-configured sources are pointing to freshrpms and dag repositories.
So the first step is to modify /etc/resolv.conf and run apt-get update to
get the packages list.

Actually, you can build your own root image by rpm command (like me). For
example:

dd if=/dev/zero of=redhat-9.0.ext3.1gb bs=1024 count=1048576
mkfs.ext3 redhat-9.0.ext3.1gb
mkdir root
mount -o loop redhat-9.0.ext3.1gb root
rpm --initdb --root=$PWD/root

At this point, you can install whatever you want. All rpm commands must be
added --root option. That's all and then bzip2 it.

umount root
bzip2 -k -9 redhat-9.0.ext3.1gb

Good luck,


> Installing a "normal" distribution on coLinux - "The Slackware on coLinux
> HOWTO"I am very impressed with the power of coLinux.  Great work for a
> 1-month old (public) project.
>
> Has anyone attempted or succeeded in getting a recent RedHat install done
> through coLinux?  I've read the threads started by Nir Perry about his
> experiences with Slackware, but I am not experienced enough with Linux
> administration to try to duplicate them, much less apply them to RedHat.
>
> I've had a lot of luck with the Debian starter image, but some of my
> programs behave very strangely (crash).  The behavior looks like it could
be
> due to incompatibilities between compiler and library versions, or they
> might be due to coLinux.  I really can't tell, and would like to take the
> distribution differences out of the loop to isolate the problem.
>
> I realize that the coLinux developers have lots to do, but fortunately,
the
> images aren't impacted by coLinux development.  Is there another source of
> images out there? (vmware users)  Is there enough interest to start a
projct
> compiling a library of images?  Or is it just easier to focus effort on
> getting coLinux to boot generic install CD's, and go from there?
>
> Any help would be appretiated.
>
>          Rob
>
>
>
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