<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span>Hi all !<br><br>I am still working on the Netkit filesystem migration to Ubuntu Jaunty...<br>As suggested, I tried from scratch with the Makefile.devel provided by Netkit, changing the DEBIAN_MIRROR and the DEBIAN_VERSION variables. The compilation is successful after resolving some packages dependencies with the ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES variable.<br><br>However, when I boot a virtual machine with the vstart command (e.g. vstart pc1 --eth0=A), I get the following messages :<br>"Filesystem type 'fusectl' is not supported. Skipping mount"<br>Then the boot goes on with<br>" * Setting preliminary keymap... <br>Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console<br></span><span id="b9869036-dec4-40a8-8520-43233be81b58">Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console<br></span><span id="b9869036-dec4-40a8-8520-43233be81b58">Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console<br></span><span id="b9869036-dec4-40a8-8520-43233be81b58">Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console</span><br><span id="b9869036-dec4-40a8-8520-43233be81b58">"<br>and six terminals which open on my screen !<br><br>I read some archived mails on this list from people also trying to install Ubuntu from scratch<br></span>e.g. http://list.dia.uniroma3.it/pipermail/netkit.users/2006-September/000189.html<br><br>Do some of you have ideas regarding the launching bug (mkfs.ext2 options when creating the filesystem ?) or even a tarball with a recent functionnal Ubuntu filesystem ?<br>I know this is a very specific problem but your help will be very welcome.<br>Thanks a lot in advance for the time you could spend on it.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Olivier<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Olivier Mémin" <olivier.memin@mancalanetworks.com><br>To: "Users of the Netkit Network Emulation System" <netkit.users@list.dia.uniroma3.it><br>Sent: Friday, 5 February, 2010 2:02:29 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Netkit.users] Migrate the filesystem to Ubuntu<br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span>Thank you for your answers.<br><br>I will try this way.<br>I have also tried to install the 'ubuntu-standard' package once the virtual machine (with default fs) is launched. It works but it is a long procedure if it has to be done on several machines.<br><br>Regards,<br>Olivier</span><br></div></div></body></html>