On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, . . wrote: > That's a good idea. I'm only somewhat familiar with this method - I understand > that you are mounting the Guest filesystem to /mnt then using yum to install > packages onto it. Do you have a good 'howto' you can recommend that describes > this procedure. Also, could you cat your yum-xen.conf file for me? I'm not > sure what you mean by a 'qemu install' - can you elaborate on that? dd if=/dev/zero of=fc6-i386.img bs=1M count=1 seek=4096 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j fc6-i386.img mount -o loop fc6-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 create /mnt/etc/fstab with: /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 mount -t proc none /mnt/proc create yum-xen.conf with: [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 6 - i386 - Base mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-6 enabled=1 [updates-released] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - Released Updates mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc6 enabled=1 run: 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 [edit /mnt/etc/sysconfig/selinux if you want to disabled it] sync umount /mnt create the xen config, using root=/dev/hda1 and the diskimage pointing to "hda1". Using qemu you simply do: dd if=/dev/zero of=fc6-i386.img bs=1M count=1 seek=4096 qemu -hda fc6-i386.img -cdrom fc6-dvd.iso -boot d -nographics after it is done, create the xen config using pygrub and xvda as diskimage. (like the current installer creates for you) Paul -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
