The following are the steps I used to create a gentoo filesystem image from scratch.
Using an existing linux installation (could be colinux):
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1M > root_fs # mke2fs -j root_fs # mkdir gentoo # mount -t ext3 -o loop root_fs gentoo # cd gentoo # tar -xvjpf stage<your stage>.tar.bz2 (eg. tar -xvjpf stage3-althon-xp-2004.02.tar.bz2) # tar -xvzpf vmlinux-modules.tar.gz # nano -w etc/fstab # cd .. # umount gentoo
Then create colinux config file (see below for example config) and start colinux :
colinux-daemon -c gentoo.colinux.xml
Notes[]
I got vmlinux-modules.tar.gz by
# gunzip initrd.gz # mkdir tmp # mount -o loop initrd tmp # cp tmp/lib/vmlinux-modules.tar.gz . # umount tmp # rm -rf tmp
- Download swap image from http://gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/swap/
- For bridge networking I installed WinPcap_3_1_beta_3.exe
/etc/fstab[]
/dev/cobd/0 / ext3 noauto,notime 1 1 /dev/cobd/1 none swap sw 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
gentoo.colinux.xml[]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<colinux>
<block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\root_fs" enabled="true"></block_device>
<block_device index="1" path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\swap_1024Mb" enabled="true"></block_device>
<bootparams>root=/dev/cobd/0</bootparams>
<image path="vmlinux"></image>
<memory size="128"></memory>
<network index="0" type="bridged" name="Local Area Connection" mac="00:FF:D3:05:00:00"></network>
</colinux>
After booting follow the installation guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
notes[]
I don't think the "modules" part will be useful unless you intend to dual boot later : indeed, coLinux ships with its own modules and they will be incompatible with you genuine Gentoo modules (different versions of Linux kernel, different versions of gcc compiler...)
The vmlinux-modules.tar.gz are the modules from coLinux not Gentoo. These are needed to make Gentoo run on the coLinux kernel - grom358
MassTranslated on 25 Dec 2004.
MassTranslated on Sun Apr 23 17:36:12 UTC 2006