Comments on: Mobile Ubuntu Colinux Setup

By: klimek

klimek — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:42:29 +0000

Hi Tony,

I have not used this technique to be able to apt-get from a cdrom, since I always have a broadband network connection :-)

Sorry, but I can’t help you with apt. I’d try to figure out whether you can tell apt-cdrom to use an arbitrary directory.

Cheers,
/Manuel

By: tony

tony — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:36:54 +0000

Hi Klimek;
I forgot to mention. I used the fstab line mentioned in your article:

0 /media/e cofs user,defaults,rw 0 0

and it did not work.

I have tried other lines and was not successful getting apt to mount the cdrom drive

By: tony

tony — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:52:55 +0000

Hi Klimek;
I set the cdrom line in fstab back to the default and commented it out.
My colinux example.conf file for cdrom is now: cofs0=E:\
I got the cd to mount finally by typing:
mount -t cofs cofs0: /media/cdrom
Its mounted and I can ls -all and see the contents for the Debian 4.0 DVD

Now I ran apt-cdrom add to add the DVD as a repository for my sources.list file

that didnt work since there is another file saying the cdrom is a different name.

Error: E: Unable to stat the mount point /cdrom/ - stat (2 No such file or directory)
E: Failed to mount the cdrom

I can mount it but apt can not.

apt-cdrom is a tool to add CDROM’s to APT’s source list.
The CDROM mount point is taken from apt.conf and /etc/fstab

My main question is how do I reflect the correct syntax in the fstab for the cdrom so there is no conflict or errors, and do I need to create an apt.conf file?

By: tony

tony — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:25:14 +0000

Hi Klimek;
Still not working. my cdrom drive in windoze is E:\
My colinux example.conf file reflects the cdrom as so: cofs1=E:\
my etc/fstab reflects:
/dev/cofs1 /media/e cofs user,defaults,rw 0 0

When I try to mount it says “cant find cofs1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab”

At boot I get a failed message for Mounting /media/e does not exist.

I have tried several different lines in my fstab to get linux to mount the cd at boot time but still get the error

By: klimek

klimek — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:10:02 +0000

Hi Tony,

have you tried using cofs to get your cdrom running? Specify the cdrom drive letter as cofs in your colinux configuration (for example: cofs1=d:\, see above. Then mount cofs1 in your colinux. You have to use a new colinux for this to work (I always use the latest 0.8.0 pre-release).

Cheers,
Manuel

By: tony

tony — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:08:35 +0000

Cant mount Cdrom in Colinux. I am using CoLinux 0.8.0 with Debian 4.0r0. I have tried everything from the wikis and forums, but no luck. Looking to upgrade from Debian DVDs to get a GUI with X. Any help would be appreciated.

By: klimek

klimek — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:18:37 +0000

What happens if you do
$ ssh gap@localhost
inside colinux (colinux-console)?

If this works, please post
$ ipconfig
from your windows box and
$ ifconfig
from within colinux…

Cheers,
Manuel

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:31:48 +0000

forgot to mention: the linux is Kubuntu 7.04

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:26:52 +0000

Things went just swell until I tried to scp my key over to the linux side.

from cygwin:

Admin@Thinkpad ~
$ scp ./key.pub gap@192.168.42.2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh: connect to host 192.168.42.2 port 22: Connection refused
lost connection

I can ping just fine.

I think I’ve turned off every firewall I can find. Do you know what might be going on?

-gary

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