Re: [coLinux-devel] RedHat on coLinux ?

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

You might need to increase memory size or add more swap.

<memory size="32"></memory>

Good luck,

Sugree Phatanapherom
su...@hp...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob McDonald" <ro...@as...>
To: "Sugree Phatanapherom" <su...@hp...>;
<col...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] RedHat on coLinux ?


> 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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