Comments on: coLinux on top of Vista

By: Ulf Wiger

Ulf Wiger — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:30:54 +0000

@Tony: Thanks, but the credit should really go to “nissepisse” in the Linux.nu forum. (:

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:53:19 +0000

Sorry, that previous comment should have gone on the topic above…
coLinux – the devil’s in the details…

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:51:51 +0000

Ulf, you da man! I have been wrestling with xming and swedish characters in emacs for so bloody long!
Mvh,
Tony

By: Ulf Wiger

Ulf Wiger — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:34 +0000

@john: Thanks. I think I’ll give it a try then.

By: john

john — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:20:15 +0000

I have been using cofs for more than 10 months, and that have not corrupted my system. But my host OS is Windows XP, not Vista, so I don’t know…
If you got any error, notify me please, thanks.
Email:john721 at gmail dot com.

By: Ulf Wiger

Ulf Wiger — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:40:01 +0000

@Barry: Well, there are compensations…
Most companies with >70,000 employees have similar restrictions, I wager.

I do have other laptops that are not restricted, but of course I already run native Linux on those.

By: Ulf Wiger

Ulf Wiger — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:33:16 +0000

@john: I read some comment on the wiki hinting that cofs was still very immature and may corrupt your system. Perhaps that comment is outdated?

By: Barry Kelly

Barry Kelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:06:45 +0000

How can you work for a company that limits your privileges on your work laptop? Or did I misunderstand you, and it was Vista that was stopping you?

By: john

john — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:35 +0000

The simplest method to share a file system between coLinux and Windows is just below:
1.insert the following line to your coLinux config file(eg:”C:\Program Files\coLinux\debian3r2.conf”):
cofs0=”D:\tmp”.
2.mount cofs0 in your linux system.