Re: [uml-user] My network is not working and i don't know why ...

[David C. <li...@ed...>]

On Monday 26 April 2004 20:27, Alex wrote:
> I think we would do everyone a huge favor by not making premade UML
> filesystems publically available (no sarcasm here).  Instead we should
> just give people directions on how to do fresh installs of various
> linux distros.

Whether or not I agree with your statement the main problem is somebody 
needs to write those tutorials.  If you have the time to put one together 
I'm sure it would help people, so please do.

I find Debian images very easy to make, using debootstrap and a local 
Debian mirror on my LAN.  I have a file "fs" that's a dd created 1GB file 
formatted using mkreiserfs, this is mounted using "-o loop".  After base 
packages have been installed I copy "skeleton" configuration files over 
into the image and can then tweak network configuration if need be.  All 
in all, it takes only a few minutes to make a new "empty" OS.  Other 
things you can do to configure the image include using `chroot` to change 
into the new image and run a specific script, etc.

I haven't played with Gentoo filesystems yet as I've no experience with 
using pre-compiled packages and I don't fancy compiling a whole UML 
filesystem from scratch.

David