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 there was  some  problem with co-linux DHCP enabled ,   while i loaded to vista HP , hence i did a static IP setting as follows: i have created eth1 interface to use the TAP adapter - i tried with ping ,read the colinux site ,did static IP , all dint work -i got clue that the TAP will allow access ,using slirp is lil tough -made a colinux.conf.txt from example.conf.txt added 1 more adapter with MAC 00:ff:00: ... -but fedora8 network settings are diffrrent ..sorted out added /etc/sysconfig/cfg-eth1 ,edited /etc/sysconfig/cfg-eth1 -in (vista)network connections ,EDITED the "TAP co-linux "adapter properties in IPv4 setting selected use the following IP :192.168.42.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 - i have disabled the vista firewall .....huh ! finally i was able to ping vista -------------> 192.168.42.10(TAP) vista ------------->192.168.42.10(TAP) ---->192.168.42.2(colinux-eth1,new interface) - added new liste...

Co- linux runs while vista running ...a full bodied linux ...may practice driver development immediately after boot..no partitioning ,no shutdown reboot required. the process to install the co-linux is outlined as following: --Download co-linux intaller exe :small one may be 2mb use ID Manager.exe to download,from the colinux sourceforge site ---it will prompt for the filesytem image download... --select c:\coLinux as path --in the default....Xml file change the paths for img file if in tht directory img file [>1Gb] is not there [mycase] then manually download the selfextracting rootfile system,Use IDM i downloaded Fadora ..6..exe extract to c:\colinux will give a  img file ---now edit Start-Fedora-6.bat  and give proper path for image like c:/coLinux/...img save and run the bat file from command prompt ---ignore and allow on warnings --DONE! now to get the  gcc  use  yum install gcc.i386 .... it will download and  install  the gcc compiler set Enjoy !