AMI - Fedora 14 - ami-e291668b

Kurt Seifried kurt at seifried.org
Wed Apr 13 20:43:45 UTC 2011


> I highly recommend converting it to an EBS AMI.  I have 4 of them that
> I made.  32 bit, 64 bit, bare bones, yum updated plus dev tools.

Agreed, EBS is much easier to work with if you want a "traditional"
VPS type server.

> I converted to an EBS AMI via these instructions:
>
> http://webkist.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/creating-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-ami-from-a-running-instance/
>
> Takes about 10 minutes each.

If you use the command line EC2 tools from Amazon you'll run into a
few snags during install, I've documented getting them running on
Fedora:

http://kurt.seifried.org/2010/12/08/getting-amazone-aws-ec2-api-tools-working-properly/


> Wayne Walker
> wwalker at solid-constructs.com

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