> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Balaco Baco <balacob...@imap.cc> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 16:55, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Balaco Baco <balacob...@imap.cc> wrote: > >> >> > > >> > 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? > >> > >> The website is very old and from the pre-mainline time. > >> If you volunteer to update and maintain it it would be wonderful. > >> > >> I'm not a web designer nor do I have the time for this. > >> > > > > Really?! I would never bet that it was that old. > > > > I can update it. And I also have a little bit of web design knowledge > > and practices that may be eventually useful. On the other hand, I would > > need directions and thumbs up to guarantee that the contents are kept > > correct (which would be my main objetive when changing texts). I have > > not programmed that much kernel code and "related or almost so" things, > > although I have a solid C background - and this is something that UML > > seems to have a broad contact surface, from the messages I have read > > here. > > > > At most a month of medium site changes are good as expectations? > > Although most of the time I can give a few hours per week, so that month > > should not look too bad. > > > > What would be the process? If only with you directly, I guess we > > continue to talk about it between us. > > Create a concept and share it. :-) >
I do not have a final working step by step from zero until now. One is giving compiling errors. The working UML (unknown origin, I don't know how I made that before) + Debian64 downloaded (and how changed a bit after booting it)... but it has no network, and I don't know why is that. Can you tell? Not even a ping works: "Network is unreachable". The host machine is normal, of course. Basic question: how to shutdown a running UML? How are we suppose to do it? Running 'shutdown now' from that Debian does not turn it off. Must I open another SSH session to kill it, or just close the session if nothing else is needed? I'm used http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/source.html as a base to what I have done (although I "updated" the suggested version there, as discussed before). And changed almost nothing in the default config before compiling... When I have something that works, that source.html page is easy to improve and needs many changes. Output of wget... not useful at all - we surely can assume users will know how to download and extract files, right? -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access your email from home and the web ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
