Re: [Xen-users] Xen and ways to install

[Michael McCabe <mccabemt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gentoo can be bootstrapped like this, I've done it before and all you 
have to do is follow there install guide with the corret mount point.
Mike

Toens Bueker wrote:

> Nils Toedtmann <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > 3) Mount the empty rootdir for the new installation and install the rpm
> > packages into it. "rpm" itself cannot resolve dependancies (so it's
> > package list has to be "dependancy-complete"), but yum and apt-for-rpm
> > can:
> >
> >  rpm    --root           $ROOTDIR $COMPLETE_LIST_OF_RPM_PACKAGES
> >
> >  yum    --installroot    $ROOTDIR $LIST_OF_RPM_PACKAGES
> >
> >  apt-get -o RPM::RootDir=$ROOTDIR $LIST_OF_RPM_PACKAGES
> >
> > After doing so, create/edit the usual files (fstab, hosts, resolv.conf,
> > inittab, network-configuration, ...), rename /lib/tls, umount & boot. 
> >
> > I install all my RH/FC/CentOS VMs with apt-get.
> >    
> OK. Thus there are basically two ways of installing
> Linux-based dom-Us (booting a pre-generated image or
> bootstrapping via net-install/apt-get). 
> BTW: Can Gentoo be bootstrapped like this?
> But how can Net- and FreeBSD be installed (on a
> Linux-based dom-0)? Since I've downloaded the Demo-CD,
> I've seen, that it's possible. 
>
> I guess, that the *BSD-images, which are included on the
> Demo-Cd, can be used for "normal" installations as well,
> right (although on the Demo-CD these are cow-volumes)?
>
> by
> Töns
>  

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