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Re: OT: CoLinux revisited (was Re: Idea List: #0002)

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Feb 06, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> ags wrote:
> > 
> > Al Getz wrote:
> > > Perhaps you can tell me what exactly gets corrupted when this problem
> > > occurs?  Matt had suggested that maybe the problem isnt as bad as it
> > > sounds so maybe you can explain what happens.  Does the whole drive
> > > get corrupted (ie the 'fat' record) or just *part* of the drive, or
> > > just one file that Linux uses, or what, (exactly) ?
> > 
> > Hi Al
> > 
> > It is just the file that (co)Linux uses.  As to how exactly it gets
> > corrupted,
> > I used the word "scrambled" because even e2fsck can't repair it, and I have
> > seen e2fsck repair some badly corrupted drives due to power failures.
> > 
> > So yes, it is a file that gets 'corrupted' (in the sense that its contents
> > are
> > no longer a valid file system image).  
> > 
> > eg:
> > Say coLinux is in C:\colinux, then colinux-daemon uses it's XML
> > configuration
> > file to load C:\colinux\root_fs as its drive to boot from.
> > 
> > ie
> > <block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\root_fs" enabled="true"
> > />
> > 
> > It's that C:\colinux\root_fs file that gets corrupted.  No big loss, unless
> > you _don't_ have a backup of it   AND it more than likely won't happen
> > if
> > you stay away from the cofs driver in the release versions :)
> > 
> > Anyway, I'm sure there are colinux forums somewhere.
> > 
> > Oooh, they released another stable version yesterday (6th Feb) 
> > "Lots of bug fixes"
> > 
> > Gary
> 
> Hi again Gary,
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info and this does sound interesting.
> Im not asking this stuff just to be able to 'have' Linux, per se,
> but to be able to have a Linux system in which to program Euphoria
> stuff of course 
> 
> So i guess what you are saying is that the file system that Linux uses
> would possibly get corrupted, so that wouldnt affect my Windows installation
> then would it?  In other words, if that problem did occur, i would still
> be able to boot to Windows and use it as i always did without refreshing
> any part of the hard drive, right?
> I guess then if i wanted to continue to use Linux i would have to
> refresh that file, right?  Or reinstall something?
> 
> I'd like to try some more Euphoria programming on Linux but of
> course i have to have some sort of Linux installation first, so
> this sounds like a candidate.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

I've been using Damn Small Linux for a few weeks now. It is pretty neat I think.
A 50 MB download and your done, then you can use wget and get all sorts of
software to increase functionability. It's based on the 2.4 Linux kernel and runs
Linux Euphoria great. I like loading it into RAM as it greatly improves
performance.


Regards,
Vincent