I would like to use a logical volume as a "physical" drive on which I
can install a fedora operating system. As of now, when I run xenguest-
installer, it treats the install location that I specified ( which is
an unformatted logical volume that I had just created ) as a physical
drive (named "xvda") and allows me to perform a basic install on it.
When I look at that logical volume, it comes up as a "foreign"
device, because it contains a /boot directory, and a volume group
consisting of a / directory and a swap directory. I was wondering
how to mimic that effect without using my xenguest-installer program,
so that when I pop a CD in and the installer starts up, I can specify
a logical volume and let the installer treat it as a physical drive
just like the xenguest-installer program does.
I am trying to accomplish this because I was unable to install FC4
via the xenguest-installer. I had mounted the image as a loopback
device to /var/ftp/pub and specified the /pub directory in FTP
server's root folder as my "Installation source", and was greeted by
an error from my FTP server (vsftpd) saying "550 Failed to change
directory". When I do the exact same thing except mount the FC6 iso
instead of the FC4 iso, everything works fine. What could I be doing
wrong?
If all else fails, I guess I can just specify in my /etc/xen/xm-
fc4-001 file the kernel and the ramdisk parameters, and install FC4
on an ext3 formatted logical volume specified as the / directory, and
thus reuse my existing /boot directory instead of trying to use the
pygrub bootloader with a new /boot directory. In this case, where
could I find a compiled xenU kernel and an appropriate initrd image
for FC4?
Thank you very much and happy new years to all!
Justin Wickett
Duke 2010
http://www.duke.edu/~jyw2
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