On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Adam Huda wrote: > I still haven't got a guest installed using the xenguest-install.py > process. When the actual installation starts, it installs a few packages > and then dies. I am not entirely sure why people want to fake a netboot and go through anaconda. What is wrong with using yum with --installroot? dd if=/dev/zero of=fc4-i386.img bs=1M count=1 seek=4096 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j fc4-i386.img mount -o loop fc4-i386.img /mnt mkdir /mnt/dev mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/etc for i in console null zero ; do /sbin/MAKEDEV -d /mnt/dev -x $i ; done cp projects/documentation/xen/fstab-xen /mnt/etc/fstab mount -t proc none /mnt/proc yum -c yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base find /mnt/var/cache/yum -name \*.rpm | xargs rm mv /mnt/lib/tls /mnt/lib/tls-disabled sync (on fc3 I had to kill minilogd that got started as part of the install) umount /mnt/proc umount /mnt where fstab-xen is: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 and yum-xen.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log exclude=*-debuginfo gpgcheck=0 obsoletes=1 reposdir=/dev/null [base] name=Fedora Core 4 - i386 - Base mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-4 enabled=1 [updates-released] name=Fedora Core 4 - i386 - Released Updates mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4 enabled=1 That's how I've created my FC3 and FC4 images. I haven't had time to point one at FC5 yet, but I would assume that works as well? Paul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
