using centos 4.3 ad guest

[Kim Gabrielsen]

Hi,

I have successfully installed Xen with fedora core 5 and i 
have installed a guest system running fedora core 5.

The guest is running without problems.

I'm now trying to install a guest based on centos 4.3.

i create the guest system using

xenguest-install.py and the process is like this:

What is the name of your virtual machine? centos
  How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
  What would you like to use as the disk (path)? 
/xen/centos
  What is the install location? 
http://mirror.fysik.dtu.dk/linux/centos/4.3/os/i386/
Invalid URL location given

but why does it give me an 'Invalid URL location given' 
error message?

I can see the URL in my browser and i can see the centos 
install tree.

i have tried with nfs also using my local centos install 
tree using:

nfs:miraculix:/usr/public/distributions/centos43_i386

but it fails.

if i use

nfs:miraculix:/usr/public/distributions/fedora5_i386

it woks perfectly and was the install tree i used for 
creating my first guest system.

im using the latest xen version.

hope someone can help me cause i'm pretty much stuck here 
and i don't see much point in using xen if i can only run 
guest systems based on fedora 5.

br

kim gabrielsen

[Robert Story]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:32:10 +0200 Kim wrote:
KG> I'm now trying to install a guest based on centos 4.3.
KG> 
KG> i create the guest system using xenguest-install.py

The fedora script is just for installing fedora guests. If you want other
guest, you'll have to create them some other way. I built my CentOS 4.3 guest
system using rpmstrap, w/instructions from a page I found via google. There
are also messages in the archives about using rpm and yum, pointing them to a
mounted image for their root.

[Robert Mortimer]

>  On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:32:10 +0200 Kim wrote:
>  KG> I'm now trying to install a guest based on centos 4.3.
>  KG>
>  KG> i create the guest system using xenguest-install.py
>
>  The fedora script is just for installing fedora guests. If you want other
>  guest, you'll have to create them some other way. I built my
>  CentOS 4.3 guest
>  system using rpmstrap, w/instructions from a page I found via
>  google. There
>  are also messages in the archives about using rpm and yum,
>  pointing them to a
>  mounted image for their root. 

To be more specific xenguest-install.py will only install FC5 images at the
moment as it relies on updates to anaconda. The HOWTO for Xen FC4 is on the
fedora WIKKI and provides an insight into producing OS images. Alternatively
go to http://jailtime.org/

Robert
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