HOWTO coLinux with gentoo

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Tamerz · Post by **Tamerz** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:02 pm

Thanks SkiCat and jayknitter. Both of those seemed to be the problem. Working now.

s0be · Post by **s0be** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:17 am

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seriously, I've used colinux to boot my gentoo live partition (as well as used gentoo to create many a virtual disk for colinux) and had little to no problem. I'm still working on devfs stuff to have it create /dev/{s,h}d[a-h][0-8] rather than /dev/cobd[0-n], but I'm lazy.

s0be

beandog · Post by **beandog** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:02 pm

If you want to be able to copy / paste between your coLinux session and Windows:

- run colinux-daemon.exe
- close the main terminal after it boots up completely
- run colinux-console-nt.exe
- right click on the title bar, click properties
- under options, check the 'quickedit mode' box
- click ok, select 'save properties ...', click ok

Now you can paste into the terminal with right-click. You can select text in the terminal by highlighting it, and hitting enter will put in the buffer.

steve[/code]

Neech · Post by **Neech** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:05 pm

Colinux is awesome.

However, has anyone managed to compile perl under it ?

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lib/base/t/fields....................ok
lib/Benchmark........................

it will hang there forever

i tryed different cflags

Neech · Post by **Neech** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:30 am

well i ended up injecting it. who cares

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emerge inject dev-lang/perl-<ver>

tfunk · Post by **tfunk** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:11 am

I think I'm missing something =(

I've tried installing from scratch 4 times assuming that I missed a step. I can't have missed the same step in the config 4 times....arrgh!

I made the <> change to the config. I made the change to the adapter name, bridged networking looks ok in Windows. When I "boot" the colinux box windows shows the TAP adapter and the Bridged connection as active. I have internet access from the windows box.

When I boot the colinux box I eth0 fails to come up and I get the following error message:

Bringing eth0 up...
Failed to bring eth0 up

ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
"netmount" was not started.

Digging through the normal Gentoo fourms I find info saying that the error relates to gentoo not having a driver for the NIC.

I don't understand how that could be the case when we are relying on a psydo-adapter. You guys haven't had any trouble relating to netmount and your using the same linux driver that I am (the default), right?

Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm missing?

Thanks!

Tfunk

Neech · Post by **Neech** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:31 am

Make sure in your colinux config xml the name parameter of your network adapter matches the actual name of the TAP adapter ( at least for winpcap bridging that was important ).

Also try disable the TAP and give winpap approach a try, but be warned, it doesn't work with wireless adapters.

tfunk · Post by **tfunk** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:49 pm

network adapter name matches the TAP name. When I look through the logs atfer firing up the .exe I get the following:

conet-daemon: searching TAP "Local Area Connection 3"
conet-daemon: scanned device "Local Area Connection 3"
conet-daemon: opening TAP: "Local Area Connection 3"
Enabling TAP-Win32...

I read in one of the erilier posts that it needed changed from TAP to TAP 32, but when I made that changeit would error out, so playing arround with it I relized that the deamon didn't bomb out if I changes it to "Local Area Connection 3"

The WinPcap way isn't an option for me as I am using a Orinco wireless card to bridge the connection from colinux to the outside world. =(

tfunk · Post by **tfunk** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:48 pm

I'm wondering if I have a different problem than I origianlly thought I had...

I noticed that when the console fires up and shows the system booting that it comes up with

modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26-co-0.6.1/modules.dep (no such file or directory)

I'm thinking now that if it is having trouble loading a module, that could very well explain why it is having trouble loading the network.

Is this a problem caused by my config or are you guys having the same error or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Any idea on how to work arround this?

Thanks!

Tfunk

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:46 am

to be honest
i dont even get the network connection up?

i have used co linux before, but i used it before i found the howtoo
it never worked well

but then
i got the network connection to at last show up in my network connections..

i install the TAP driver, and nothing.
i cant even get to bridge the connections because it doesnt show up.
when i look in network devices, it shows it

there are no problems with it (as it seems, resources are fine, irq's are ok)
but it doesnt seem to show up in networkconnections.

help me plz!

i use sp2
i dont know if thats a problem

Vadim · Post by **Vadim** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 7:06 am

2 Tfunk
To solve the module loading problem look here http://colinux.org/wiki/index.php/Conve ... tributions in section D.
I don't know maybe it can halp you.

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:13 pm

i went back and downloaded the ***17 build.... and still nothing

i tried on a system that doesnt use the sp2 and i at least got hte tap driver installed (the one that comes with colinux)
but with sp2 i cant seem to see it in network connections..

help me plz

BudgetDedicated · Post by **BudgetDedicated** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:15 pm

Don't try to start X, your system might hang (mine does!)

I was allready very fond of User Mode Linux... this is essentially the same: a patched linux kernel to run in usermode (of windows).

I'm running a gentoo system in it on my laptop. I have a great mix of linux & mircosoft software available now! (I need some tools like Visio for university courses... helas). I can switch over very transparently now... without a hurry! My laptop is the last box to go

mikEdub · Post by **mikEdub** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:20 am

mahir: I was stumped for hours because no matter what I did I couldn't find the TAP connection under network connections ( I was running SP2 also). then I read the documentation on the TAP driver web site and said it currently won't show up if your running SP2 so I uninstalled SP2 and now its working! HTH

Trejkaz · Post by **Trejkaz** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:33 am

Great... I hope they intend to fix this rather blatant bug soon. How far off is SP2 final?

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:36 am

i am gonna have to try that now!!!

janlaur · Post by **janlaur** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:14 pm

Trejkaz wrote:Great... I hope they intend to fix this rather blatant bug soon. How far off is SP2 final?

A recent news story, found on winbeta.org

According to a reliable source, Windows XP Service Pack 2 has just been pushed back a bit further than originally expected. These delays will effect both the second Release Candidate along with the Release To Manufacturing/Release to Web.

The following are the new expected delivery dates:

RC2 - May 26th, 2004 (previous date was May 12th, 2004)
RTM - July 21st, 2004 (previous date was June 23rd, 2004)

traviswu · Post by **traviswu** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:33 pm

I got "no space left on device" when I do emerge --update world.
The "df" shows" /dev/cobd0 is full.

Is there anyway that we can increase the size of cobd0 ?

Thanks.

Travis

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:58 pm

can someone send me their default.config.xml thingi
cos i just CANNOT seem to get it to work?!

i dont get it

i removed sp2 and i see the tap connection
but i just cant get it to connect!!!

janlaur · Post by **janlaur** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:19 pm

mahir wrote:can someone send me their default.config.xml thingi

Here's a working one. Remember that colinux only prints configuration errors and continues. so it will start even tough you migth made a typo.

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<colinux>
<block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\e:\gentoo-i586-ext3-2g-deluxe" enabled="true"/>
<bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>
<image path="vmlinux"/>
<memory size="128"/>
<network index="0" type="tap" name="TAP"/>
</colinux>

Is there anyway that we can increase the size of cobd0 ?

I just updated the howto on how to do that.

I read the documentation on the TAP driver web site and said it currently won't show up if your running SP2 so I uninstalled SP2 and now its working

I'm just installed SP2 RC1, and yes, it dosn't show up, but networking, in coLinux, still works for me. Perhaps because i sat it up before installing sp2 rc1

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:33 pm

it works!!
ok

i got it working
SOMEHOW

but now
i wanna know

i can close the consol thing
and open up the consol-nt thing
which is much better for me @the moment..
but

how do i log in several times?
like i would under normal gentoo
i mean
how would i simulate alt+f1 etcetc..
have several consol-nt boxes open all connected to the deamon?

traviswu · Post by **traviswu** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:53 pm

alt-f1 ... still works, just don't try alt-F4

janlaur · Post by **janlaur** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:01 pm

how do i log in several times?

The usual way i guess is to start sshd in coLinux, and then login with a windows ssh client like putty. Or install and start tigthvnc server. And then login via a vnc viewer.

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:14 pm

also

i just did a full emerge sync and emerge system.

should i install xorg? cos i wanna use cygwins x server to run software
hopefully
i wanna replace explorer.exe with gnome. LOLLL ne way
yea

so i cant find lspci....

what package do i have to install to get lspci?

mahir · Post by **mahir** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:07 am

has anyone been able to get xorg-x11 installed?

or should i try and get fdo xorg installed?

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