similar to: rpmstrap/rpmbootstrap to boostrap CentOS 5

Hi, NetApp support has suggested us aligning partitions to improve performance, in short: starting sector must be divisible by 8. How can I move the start point in a misaligned partition -in production, with ext3- under Linux? A screenshot with a misaligned (start=63s) and aligned (start=64s) partition is available at: http://filesocial.com/lkwvvn2 (If anyone is interested in this topic,

Hi everyone, I've been working on a tool similar to debootstrap but designed to work with RPM-based distributions. The intent of such a tool is to be able to bootstrap a basic working RPM-based system (I use it primarily for creating chroots for cross-distro development and testing, but it could also be used for simple installs or even upgrade and dep-closure tests). It's called

hello, I just upgraded the rpmstrap script for CentOS 4.2. As I don't have any x86_64 machines I just upgraded the i386 section. Some of the version numbers are changed and there were some new package requirements. The file is attached. Overwrite the original file under /usr/lib/rpmstrap/scripts and itt will work again. Bye, Ago -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment

Dear Srs, In the page: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/OpenVZ Section -> "Additional Resources" "Performance evaluation of Xen vs. OpenVZ by HP Labs" link is broken, it points to: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-59.pdf And the PDF has been moved to: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-59R1.pdf Regards, -- Santi Saez

Hi, What's the correct way to change configuration parameters for an iSCSI device? For example I/O scheduler, max_sectors_kb, etc... I could add commands to the S99local script: echo noop > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler echo 64 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb Unfortunately, iSCSI device names might change from sdb to, say, sdc (server reboot, iSCSI target reconnection).

Hi, I want to take snapshots of a iSCSI devices from a target that hasn't snapshot/cloning capabilities (it's a Infortrend A16E storage array). What method are you using to make snapshots/clones of iSCSI targets using Open-iSCSI + CentOS? What about using Open-iSCSI + LVM snapshots system? For example: - Take a LVM snapshot in the initiator with "lvcreate". - Give read-only

Hello, I'm trying to use helper variables like %{rhel} in a .SPEC file on CentOS (as they are defined in RHEL and Fedora [1]), but it seems they are not available. Is there any way to detect automatically CentOS release from a .SPEC file in a RPM build process? As a workaround, I use this hack: %if 0%{?rhel} >= 5 (..) %endif And when calling rpmbuild I use a

Hello, I'm trying to build PHP 5.3.6 in a CentOS-4 server with MySQL 5.5.10 and I get this error: //usr/include/mysql/my_config_i386.h:610:1: warning: "PACKAGE_NAME" redefined /usr/include/mysql/mysql/psi/mysql_thread.h:100: error: syntax error before "pthread_rwlock_t" /usr/include/mysql/mysql/psi/mysql_thread.h:100: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union

Dear Srs, yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using: # rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug tracker, and more info related to other distros like Fedora, etc.. with the same problem.

Hello, does anyone have a vbd file of these 2 Operating Systems ? So far I only managed to get Debian Sarge installed properly with deboostrap. I would be more than happy if anyone had a DiskImage or a good howto for at least FreeBSD. Thanks Regards Christian Keil _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com

Forwarding just in case anyone is familiar with this on CentOS, thanks! -- Hello, Just found that net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range has different behavior between RHEL releases: until v6 although you have multiple source IPs you can only use a fixed number of local ports, seems that "ip_local_port_range" is a global configuration or limitation. On RHEL-6 kernel (testing with 2.6.32-279)

Hi, While trying to ./configure libguestfs on gentoo fails since it requires feboostrap or deboostrap Can this be made optional and not as necessary requirement, since there are still many useful uses for libguestfs besides bootstrapping, which can be used on distros like gentoo. Thanks Alex

Hi Debian has a couple of tools like fai-diskimage and vmdebootstrap, to build VM images, but they require being root, as these loopmounts partitions on which deboostrap is executed. Maybe installing grub2 needs access to block devices too. I was thinking of using libguestfs to sandbox those processes, by passing a build VM as a disk image and my build directory as a 9pfs mount to the appliance,

Hi Centos users I successfully installed a Centos 5.1 DomU on Debian Etch Dom0. I used the virtual file systems from Jailtime[0] How to this manual (without using Jailtime)? I wish to install from Scratch. Xen-tools/rpmstrap doesn't work for me. cheers Simon [0] http://jailtime.org/ -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

Dear Srs, I get this error when running "mkfs.ocfs2": ================================================================================= # mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4K -C 32K -N 255 -L backup_ocfs2_001 /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ocfs2 1.2.7 Filesystem label=backup_ocfs2_001 Block size=4096 (bits=12) Cluster size=32768 (bits=15) Volume size=6000488677376 (183120382 clusters) (1464963056 blocks) 5678 cluster

Hi, There are a couple of open bugs against Xen-3 with patches which directly impact my efforts to have Debian Installer work in a Xen guest domain for Lenny. ?In both cases the relevant fixes are already committed in upstream Xen and I've been rebuilding and using the Debian packages with them without problems. First is #476366 which is a pygrub issue that prevents booting a guest using

Hello. What's the proper way to remove *all symbols* from ELF binaries when building packages with rpmbuild on CentOS? Seems that an out of the box rpmbuild install only discards debugging symbols (strip -g). That's the default configuration for %__os_install_post on CentOS, the step in charge on stripping binaries: $ rpmbuild --showrc (..) -14: __os_install_post

I am running Xen 3.0 (64bit) on CentOS 5.3, and I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 using the steps below: 1. Create a new disk with LVM 2. Downlaod vmlinuz & initrd.gz from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/ 3. /usr/sbin/xm create -c /etc/xen/ubuntu.cfg install=true 4. Format the whole disk as EXT3, mount as / 5. The installer show some

Hi. I need to use some other distributions other than Debian as a Xen domU. These distributions are: - Fedora Core 7 - Opensuse 10.2 - Gentoo 2007.0 - Slackware 11.0 - Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server - Ubuntu 7.04 Server - Centos 5.0 - Mandriva 2007 Could you tell me a way to install it as domU, please? I searched for rpmstrap, but it supports only Fedora Core 4 and Centos 4... Could you help me, please?

Hello, I have running xen over a debian server (debian sarge). Now I would like to configure a domU with redhat (AS 4), do you now any way to install it? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información _o) y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) / \\ http://www.um.es/atica _(___V Tfo: 968367590 Fax: 968398337