Fedora 11 on coLinux

After some minor issues I managed to install Fedora 11 on coLinux. Normally I would perform a manual installation by creating a basic rpm environment, but with Fedora 11 I encountered problems during the installation; first the version of squashfs was different. This was easily fixed with a dump from Fedora 10... but second, rpm packages were all of a sudden not available halfway a rpm transaction. Since it occurred more than once, I settled for using qemu again.

The file colinux-fedora11.exe (82MB) is published on [fedorapeople], [dropbox] and [files]. It does have some minor issues during startup, but besides this it is operational. The installation was performed as a basic installation; so it does not contain any graphical environment, no additional network servers, no updates, etc. This way the download is small. The only added packages are wget, mc and my kernel modules RPM.



All you need to run it is: coLinux, winpcap and the archive. The file 'run.bat' would start the cooperative environment. Any tweaks you would like to make can be placed in the 'run.txt' file. The user is 'root' without a password. After you start it, do set a password for this user.

Personally I use the environment for Fedora Electronic Lab which coexists with Cygwin. Not all the tools I use for electronics are available on Linux... yet!

Note: I have used version 0.7.3 of coLinux because the current stable release 0.7.4 suffers from a problem with the tap device.

Note 21-09-09: The original image has been replaced by the updated image from HenryN. IF needed the original image is available upon request. It should however be considered as obsolete.