Enzo Medici wrote:
>
> Ok, so I've gotten a Xen kernel installed just fine and booted. Now I'm
> trying to get a domU installed and am having trouble with the install media
> urls which are not clearly explained anywhere on the internet. All I see is
> use a valid install url without any explanation of what that actually is. For
> example, you would think you could use a .iso file, but you cannot. It
> doesn't appear that you can use a local install extract as all I see are FTP,
> HTTP or NFS servers.
>
> 1. What constitutes a valid install media URL? What does virt-manager look
> for at this URL?
>
> 2. How do you get a valid install media URL for a particular Linux
> distribution? I looked at Ubuntu
> mirrors and don't see anything that looks like I can use.
>
We actually don't have support in the backend for fetching kernels
from ubuntu trees. I was playing with this over the weekend though
and I have a patch that will fix it.
This may work at the moment though since it could be detected as
a debian tree.
> 3. How can you create / extract the install directory from an .iso file? I
> can mount the iso and copy
> the contents to a directory, but what particular path do I use for the base
> directory for the install URL?
>
> 4. What are valid install media URLS for: Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSolaris, &
> Centos5?
>
For fedora, it has varied a bit for different releases, but basically
whatever ends in {ARCH}/os:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/
CentOS is similar, but seems to have ARCH and os reversed:
http://mirrors.cmich.edu/centos/5/os/x86_64/
Debian/Ubuntu trees are everything up to the install-{arch} dir:
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/etch/main/installer-i386
Does OpenSolaris even have links to trees? I could only find links
to install media.
- Cole
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