I have not been able to find one useful link on how to make a chroot installation of Suse (to boot a Suse VM). Is there any other way this can be accomplished? I found one link but it was too much haking.I am sure someting simple must be outhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. cc _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, On 6/27/06, Claris Castillo <ccastil@ncsu.edu> wrote:> > I have not been able to find one useful link on how to make a chroot > installation of Suse (to boot a Suse VM). Is there any other way this can > be accomplished? I found one link but it was too much haking.I am sure > someting simple must be outhere.I''d be not so sure. SuSE is not so easy to build from a non-SuSE system, and it''s not so easy to find information on how to do that. Maybe some SuSE mailing list can tell you more about this. When I had to do this for another purpose, I finally found that the easiest way was to build a SuSE base/chroot install from a running SuSE system in real hardware or some full virtualisation tool as VmWare Player or qemu. Maybe you can try to use yum or rpmstrap. (if you told the link you tried one could tell if you maybe already tried this) Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''d be not so sure. SuSE is not so easy to build from a non-SuSE > system, and it''s not so easy to find information on how to do that. > Maybe some SuSE mailing list can tell you more about this.suse 10.1: grab kernel-xen and install-initrd rpms from install media. install-initrd contains a script named mkinstallinitrd and some data and is able to create a initrd usable for installation. You don''t have to install the packages, you can also unpack them using rpm2cpio somewhere in /tmp, but you have to pass --libdir to the script then that it finds it''s data. Then take the kernel and the initrd and just boot them. You might want to add "vnc=1" for a graphical install. Maybe also "install={http|ftp|nfs}://host/path/" for a network install. Maybe you find domi (http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/xen/) useful, it can do that for you ;) cheers, Gerd -- Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/julika-dora.jpeg _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users