On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:44:12AM -0500, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > I just installed Fedora 8 and the Fedora Xen packages. I have been > trying to get a variety of VMs installed, but the most basic one is just > a Fedora guest VM. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the correct > tool is "virt-install". It asks a number of questions, but the last is > "What is the install location?" I finally found an excerpt from a book > that had > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386"; as the > answer. But that is not correct it is actually: > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*6*/i386/os";, > but that is for core 6, not 7 or Fedora 8. And the file tree does not > have a > "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/*8*/i386/os";. > Is there no place where fc8's files are posted? Or are we supposed to > specify 6? I would have said okay, except I started getting messages > like this: Fedora Core & Extras mered during the F7 release, so the download URLs changed style slightly eg, i386 F8 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ eg, x86_64 F7 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/ Basically, you always want the URL ending in '/os/' for your release. You can also use nfs:// or ftp:// URLs. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
