Re: [Xen-users] Centos 4.3 as a domU under FC5

[Mark Foster <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Henning Sprang wrote:

> On 5/31/06, carlopmart <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   Where I can find doc. about installing CentOS 4.3 domU under FC5
>> dom0??  Which can be the best option to install CentOS as a domU:
>> rpmstrap or uisng fc5 xen scripts??
>
>
> the fc5 xen scripts can only install fc5 on fc5, AFAIK.
>
> you might try rpmstrap, look at jailtime.org or xen-get.org, or build
> you own minimal image with a "real machine" or vmware...
>
You might have a look at my wiki page for installing centos-4 on xen.
http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-4_on_Xen
The problem is that rpmstrap 0.5.2 currently only supports centos 4.1
and you want 4.3, so you'd need to hack the centos4 rpmstrap script, or
install 4.1 and update to 4.3 from there. If you go this route please
consider sending the rpmstrap folks your updates.
The other method which I happen to prefer, is to use a combination of
'rpm --root' and 'yum --installroot', as described here:
http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-3_on_Xen
and elsewhere.
You could probably pull this off on fc5 by creating a customized yum
config to bootstrap centos4 with. In any case I don't think you are
going to find a recipe to do exactly what you want, but may be lucky to
find 80% of what you need documented in some way, shape or form and
you'll have to fill in the other 20% by yourself.
Good luck.

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