Re: xen guest system - install source

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> > On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> >
> >> I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system
> >>  seems to be ok.
> >>
> >> I am following this tutorial:
> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
> >>
> >> Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system,
> >> but I cannot find a working install source.
> >>
> >> I have tried at least these:
> >>
> >> http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
> >>
> >> http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-netinstall.iso
> >>
> >>
> >> Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
> >>
> >> What should I use as path?
>
>
> On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> > It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
> >
> > http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
> >
> > -Giovanni
>
> Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
>
> Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
>
> > ValueError: Invalid URL location given:
> > http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz
> > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
>
> ...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser
> quite ok.
>
> Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
>

Try using ftp:// instead.

I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse
anaconda.

-- Pasi

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You want to use something like this for virt-install:

http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/
or
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/

Matt

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