[Xen-users] Re: fedora core 6 domU on Opensuse 10.2 dom0 - fsck at each boot

["Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

On 12/23/06, bigfoot29 <bigfoot29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> Now you made me curious... how can I set up a Fedora DomU? Tbh, never
> found much that looked like a promising simple howto :)
>
> Is there any link you wouldn't mind sharing with me/us? :)
> Or can it be said with 3-4 words how to set it up using e.g a Debian
> host system?
I try it with 3-4 words, cause I don't have the links at hand from
which I puzzled this together:

Just install yum, use a yum.conf for fedora repositories, and install
with --installroot=/path/to/mounted/vm/volume groupinstall Base.

That's about it. and the things I wrote here which were the last
missing bits. SuSE can also be bootstrapped that way... (actually, on
suse, you must not use the "ro" in the root config variable in the vm
config - that really was my fault, and it is really different like
that in suse)

I think this way never will be really supported by suse and fedora,
cause they want us to use their funny installers instead of a simple
script, but for now it works quite well. But it would be really nice
if they'd fully support bootstrapping systems with yum, so people
curious about other distributions have an easier and simple life - and
install with a simple shell command...

Henning

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