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

[carlopmart <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all for your explanations.

Mark,

 Using second method that you explain, in which order I need to execute 
rpm and yum commands???
Many thanks.


Mark Foster wrote:
> 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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