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[uml-user] RedHat Advanced Server

Hi, I needed a filesystem for RedHat Advanced Server 2.1. Is there anywhere I can download it from? If not, is there a way to construct the filesystem from the installation CDs? Thanks, -- Asim ===== ___________________________________ Asim Shankar asimshankar@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.geocities.com/asimshankar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01

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Re: [uml-user] root_fs troubles.

> > Try adding the devfs=nomount command line option. > no, I'm afraid that doesn't help either... besides, devfs is compiled into the kernel, is set to mount at boot time, and the filesystem i am using (debian) needs devfs... I noticed that it got a wee bit further when i added a con= command line parameter. then it says: Initializing software serial port version 1 Initializing stdio console driver and then just crashes. I tried using strace on it, but I don't really know what I'm doing, and because it starts multiple threads it was a little harder... -- Thomi Richards, thomi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01

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[uml-user] RedHat Advanced Server

Hi, I needed a filesystem for RedHat Advanced Server 2.1. Is there anywhere I can download it from? If not, is there a way to construct the filesystem from the installation CDs? Thanks, -- Asim ===== ___________________________________ Asim Shankar asimshankar@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.geocities.com/asimshankar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01

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Re: [uml-user] RedHat Advanced Server

At 10:57 pm +0100 2003-06-27, Nuno Silva wrote: >Asim Shankar wrote: > > I needed a filesystem for RedHat Advanced Server 2.1. Is there anywhere >> I can download it from? If not, is there a way to construct the > > filesystem from the installation CDs? > >One of RHAS "special" features is the kernel. If you use a vanilla >kernel with UML patches you don't have a RHAS anymore. > >That said, you can install, as usual, to a machine, tar the whole >filesystem and untar it to a loop-mounted file. Don't forget to adjust >/etc/fstab and /etc/inittab. This is a braindead approach but it's simple :) I am doing exactly this, to learn about the nuts and bolts of UMl. Perhaps I am brain dead. Do you have a pointer for instructions on how to modify fstab? To date may modified fstab looks like: /dev/ubd/0 / ext2 defaults 0 0 #/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 #/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 #/dev/hda3 /data reiserfs defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 #usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 #/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 In which I have substituted the ubd device instead of a real disk partition. Note to clumsy typists, be careful to mind you Bs and Ds. I have removed references to hardware which the guest system will not have. Do you have a pointer for instructions on how to modify inittab? I have definitely found that changes are needed, but I have been able to ascertain them. You may want to change the default run level from 5 to, say, 3. I also had to create a /tmp and a /proc directory. I am having problems in that there is no /dev/tty and my halt script needs one. I also had to remove a call to hwscan. I have found that my vi does not work as I expect because it tries to interprete ANSI codes. (I can't even do :q!). I get messages such as 'Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console'. In fact my brain is getting a lot of exercise! This is not to put off the OP, but since most of this is not discussed on any of the main UML websites, I would be grateful for further pointers. On a different tack, if my command for starting UML is: $ linux ubd0=root_fs_cow,root_fs eth0=ethertap,tap0,,192.168.254.77 single can root_fs by of type cramfs ? Ben -- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of ewitness Limited shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. eWitness Limited, Alpha House, Redvers Close, Lawnswood Business Park, Leeds, LS16 6QY Telephone: 0113 2951112 Fax: 0113 2951114 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01