User:Klapmuetz/Install on windows by CoLinux
Arch and coLinux
Note: The new image described here is a few years old
The previous 0.7.x Arch Linux image doesn't work, because Arch Linux changed the name of the 'current' repository to 'core'. I've build a new image for CoLinux. All you need to do is download the co.7z batch file. ref: http://web.twpda.com/colinux .
Install method:
co arch 1
Daily usage:
co arch
Or, you can download the images directly from http://web.twpda.com/colinux.
The image build steps (for expert users)
Using Remote Arch Linux Install and an existing Debian image I built an Arch Linux 0.8.0 base ext3 filesystem. I put the method to build Arch Linux image here. (The newest image is in co.7z) (Note: arch.cmd is the same as co.cmd, which is in the co.7z archive, linked in the previous section)
Build Arch Linux on Colinux From Debian
- colinux 0.8.0 (devel-coLinux-20080120.exe)
- archlinux 2007.08-2 (Archlinux-i686-2007.08-2.ftp.iso)
- Debian 4.0r0 (Debian-4.0r0-etch.ext3.1gb)
1. Download required files
- On sf.net's colinux download page
- colinux 0.8.0
- Debian-4.0r0.ext3-etch.ext3.1gb.bz2
- Install colinux 0.8.0
- Download fs_256Mb.bz2 blank ext3 file system: http://gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/fs
- Download swap_64Mb.bz2: http://gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/swap/
- Extract all *.bz2 file into colinux's directory (can use 7-zip to extract)
PS. This step could complete by following command.(wget & 7-zip required)
arch.cmd deb 1
2. Get newarch script
Reference: Quick Custom Installation
Use copy and paste method to create pacman.conf, newarch in c:\colinux (Must be Unix line feed format)
3. Run debian system and mount windows c:\colinux directory as /mnt/win
Run deb.cmd under windows cmd window
C:> arch.cmd deb
apt-get install wget mkdir -p /mnt/win /mnt/arch mount -t cofs cofs1:/ /mnt/win cd /mnt/win/colinux/ # arch.fs is thd file downloaded from http://gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/fs # mke2fs -j arch.fs # using ext3 format, if the arch.fs is not formated by ext3 mount -o loop arch.fs /mnt/arch/ ./newarch # answer y, y, n (don't need to make tar.gz file)
4. Using the new arch.fs to boot
Copy deb.cmd to arch.cmd and change every word DEB to ARCH, deb to arch.
colinux-daemon -t nt kernel=vmlinux mem=%MEM% initrd=initrd.gz hda1=arch.fs hda2=arch.swap cofs1=c:\ root=/dev/hda1 eth0=slirp,,tcp:22:22/tcp:5000:5000
Run arch.cmd under windows cmd window
C:> arch.cmd arch
Under colinux box:
# nano -w /etc/rc.conf
Change the 'eth0' line as following:
eth0=dhcp
To access the network via slirp's dhcp method:
# /etc/rc.d/network restart
5. Modify fstab
# mkdir -p /mnt/win # vi /etc/fstab
Append the following lines:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0 cofs1:/ /mnt/win cofs noauto 0 0
Here we let /dev/hda1 do auto fsck that may cause first time boot fail. But, just continue, and try booting again, it will success.
Building a Minimal Image (optional)
1. Reduce the disk usage in fs.from by removing useless packages.
1.1 Boot from arch.fs
1.2 Try to remove most BASE packages:
mkdir /mnt/win mount -t cofs cofs1:/ /mnt/win cd /mnt/win/colinux ./reduce.sh # edit reqpkg.txt if some dependency failed
1.3 Power off
2. Boot from debian, copy arch.fs to arch_to.fs
2.1 In windows create new empty file system as arch_to.fs
2.2 In debian box:
mkdir -p /mnt/arch /mnt/arch_to cd /mnt/win/colinux mount -o loop arch.fs /mnt/arch mount -o loop arch_to.fs /mnt/arch_to ./clean.sh # remove some log files in arch.fs cp -rdp /mnt/arch/* /mnt/arch_to