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

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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?

AFAIK, Gentoo can be installed much the same way you'd install it on a normal 
machine: mount the domain's root filesystem, unpack the stage tarballs, get 
the portage snapshort, chroot to the install and get emerge to build the 
system.

The whole procedure is in the handbook at 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml - you should be able 
to do it from dom0.  You can probably skip the kernel configuration stage if 
you're just going to boot it using a domU.

Cheers,
Mark

> 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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