Re: [coLinux-devel] RedHat on coLinux ?

[Thomas F. <tf...@no...>]

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Hi Rob,

do use swap space? Memory is very limited in the standard configuration.
There was also discussion about a apt-get bug on this list.

Thomas

> 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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