[uml-user] Website is in need of many small changes and updates?

[Balaco B. <bal...@im...>]

> > > >> > Really!? I wish I had read that somewhere. Well, just retried with
> > > >> > another option that is there for me. It is one of the cases I detailed
> > > >> > before that end with error.
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> Linux 2.6.24?! SRSLY?
> > > 
> > > If you want me to help, please use a recent/supported kernel.
> > > Ready-to-use root filesystems can be found everywhere.
> > > For example: http://fs.devloop.org.uk/
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure now, but the two Debian root fs I'm using were downloaded
> > from the site you point here. Later I'll check their sums, and PS this
> > in a next message. Kernels 2.6.* were recent and assumed to be supported
> > in most places I could need - or so I assumed.
> 
> > What is your definition of recent and your definition of supported? This
> > may be useful for many other users of UML I guess. The fact that the
> > kernels offered in the UML website didn't work, and then I tried to
> > compile from source should be pointed here. I don't think I have done
> > something so weird or uncommon here - mainly because I don't need much
> > as long as I have flexibility to execute it.
> 
> Everything that gets -stable updates.

Website: UML's, http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/, accessed right
now.

"Getting started" seemed like a good place for me a few weeks ago (and
still does, but...). And I think it will make many users feel and think
the same way I did. Except that it gives us wrong directions - but gives
bad directions for users that will surely follow them without knowing
the wrong details since they're expecting to see something working to
get more familiar with UML. "Download THIS ( pointing to
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/linux-2.6.24-rc7.bz2) or THIS
(pointing to
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/linux-2.6.24-x86_64.bz2 )". Are
these kernel versions familiar to you in the list? They are for me, now
I just understood a few more details, and the possible path to solution,
to execution without unexpected problems - or so I hope.

The thread I started today, quickly skimmed in the above quotes, shows
this. The website needs to be fixed. And more than that, needs to be
updated more frequently (or so I must guess) or write about how users
can be sure their setup is good enough.

I downloaded both suggested kernels, following the official (and assumed
best, for that) instructions. Both did not work (and still don't). And
the one that worked back then is probably needing something I've
forgotten in these days or stopped to work today. But that one I
compiled from source - and now I need to do it again, from the very
start.

Everything that gets stable updates... but this should not exclude the
UML website, right?


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