On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM, sean darcy <seandarcy2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amazon has started offering a year free trial: Ihttp://aws.amazon.com/free. > > So I'm trying to get my first instance ever running on ec2. I'm trying > to use the x86-64 ami from > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images. > > But: > > /opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances > ami-e291668b -k pstam-keypair > Client.InvalidParameterValue: The requested instance type's > architecture (i386) does not match the architecture in the manifest > for ami-e291668b (x86_64) > > Supposedly the Micro instance in the free trial supports both 32 and 64 bit: > > Micro Instance > > 613 MB memory > Up to 2 EC2 Compute Units (for short periodic bursts) > EBS storage only > 32-bit or 64-bit platform > I/O Performance: Low > API name: t1.micro > > I tried: > > /opt/amazon/webservices/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419/bin/ec2-run-instances > ami-e291668b -t t1.micro -k pstam-keypair > Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMIs with an instance-store root device > are not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'. > > The 386 ami works. > > Am I doing something wrong, or does F14 64-bit image just not work as > a micro instance? > > sean > Well it appears that the 32 bit image doesn't work either as a micro instance! Is this a result of the images being "instance-store" rather than EBS backed images? Whatever that means. AFAICS, none of the the F14 images work under the free tier :-( sean _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud