Chiming in a bit late on this one.
Not sure you still have a problem with this but what I do for domU install sources are;
- Download the distros iso, and copy its contents to some dir, I then serve out that dir via a local apache server, so my install url would look like;
http://ip-addy-of apache-server/centos5.3
or...
- I mount the DVD and use virt-install with the --cdrom flag;
virt-install --name centos --hvm --ram 512 --disk path=/var/lib/ libvirt/images/centos.img,size=20,sparse=false --cdrom=/dev/cdrom
just some options for flexible xen installs.
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Tait Clarridge wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 07:11 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
+---------------+ Error +----------------+ | | | Unable to retrieve | | http://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mirrors/cent | | os.org/5.3/os/i386/images/stage2.img. | | | | +----+ | | | OK | | | +----+ | | | | | +----------------------------------------+Strange, because I can download that image both with wget (from a http mirror) and with ftp (from a ftp mirror). Should I try downloading the whole i386 directory, and publish it locally with Apache, or something like that?
- Jussi
Well, it is putting an extra slash in front of the server address.. I remember this being a pain when trying to set a mirror to install up.
Try the following:
Web site name: ftp.funet.fi CentOS directory: pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
Make sure you DO NOT add a slash infront of "pub" in the CentOS directory line.
This tends to work for me, how are you kicking off the xen guest install? Grabbed the xen kernel and ramdisk from a mirror?
two // doesn't matter in the least.
I can easily retrieve this url...
wget \ http://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/stage2.img
If you look at the URL's generated by yum repos, they often have 2 slashes.
Craig
Alright, just relaying my findings when I was having problems here. I ended up having to mount the CD images on a blank ext3 partition and putting that in the domU config file.
Thanks for clearing up the two slashes, I have noticed them working before but didn't know if the CentOS installer was getting confused with them or not.
Could this be a network issue?
OP: Is your domU config'd for networking properly?
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