userinstall

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2015-09-27 Paul Boddie raw files shortlog changelog graph Added notes about Linux kernel installation and root password initialisation.
README.txt (file)
     1.1 --- a/README.txt	Sun Sep 27 13:43:41 2015 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/README.txt	Sun Sep 27 15:31:55 2015 +0200
     1.3 @@ -298,6 +298,14 @@
     1.4  Constructing UML Instances
     1.5  --------------------------
     1.6  
     1.7 +Before making an image, make sure that you have set a root password in the
     1.8 +existing filesystem. Otherwise, you will not be able to log into the UML
     1.9 +instance. The following commands will achieve this:
    1.10 +
    1.11 +user-do --root
    1.12 +passwd
    1.13 +exit
    1.14 +
    1.15  Since UML needs to see its filesystems as images, not directories within an
    1.16  existing filesystem, the uml-make-image script needs to create these image
    1.17  files. For example, to create a root filesystem 4GB in size, along with a swap
    1.18 @@ -334,7 +342,10 @@
    1.19  Building User Mode Linux
    1.20  ------------------------
    1.21  
    1.22 -To make a User Mode Linux executable, run the uml-linux-build script.
    1.23 +To make a User Mode Linux executable, run the uml-linux-build script, with the
    1.24 +--root option being necessary to install modules into a root filesystem:
    1.25 +
    1.26 +uml-linux-build --root
    1.27  
    1.28  Enabling Networking for UML Instances
    1.29  -------------------------------------