Re: [coLinux-devel] RedHat on coLinux ?

[Rob M. <ro...@as...>]

Thanks for making that image available.

It seems to work good for starters, but when I try to do an apt-get update,
it downloads the release and pkglist files, and then crashes with an alloc
failure while it is trying to read the package lists.

I tried adding

APT::Cache-Limit "8388608";

to the /etc/apt/apt.conf

And I tried removing some of the servers from (to make the package list
smaller)

/etc/apt/sources.list

Did you have this problem?  Any ideas for a solution?

I am running the latest binary release of coLinux.

Thanks again,

           Rob


> 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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