I have a CentOS 5.6 system with a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 (which does not provide hardware virtualization support, so I can't use the --cdrom option) and I am *trying* to install FC15 as a guest O/S using a local FC15 DVD-ROM image. Everything work until the installer *insists* on firing up the network to get the repo data, etc. I have a *dial-up* Internet connection and this is a *desktop* machine and is thus pretty much anchored where it is. I have googled this, but it seems no one uses local DVD images. (Of cource *everyone* in the world, except for rural America, has broadband.)
I was able to install FC15 on a old IDE disk connected via a USB port after booting a burned copy of the DVD. *Everything* needed to install the *minimual* system I want to install is there on the DVD, but I can't seem to get the FC15 installer to believe that. I *don't* want or need the updates at this time (maybe later).
Oh, and the virt-viewer is chopping off the right third of the graphical display. Is there any way to fix that? It would let me resize the viewer window and does not provide scroll bars, etc. Or is the FC15 installer having a stupid idea of the virtual machine virtual monitor size? Can *that* be changed (the virtual machine's virtual monitor size)?
The command line I am using is:
sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
The command line I am using is:
sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
I have never used virt-install or Fedora 15 but, maybe you have to do the same here like when installing RHEL6 using the iso image on a NFS server: In the directory where the ISO is, you have to create a directory called images and put the install.img from the DVD there. For RHEL6.1 the dirlisting looks like this:
[root@blubb i386]# ll -R .: total 3496772 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 18:20 images -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 May 19 18:13 MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218103808 May 12 12:53 rhel-server-6.1-i386-boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3066486784 May 13 07:13 rhel-server-6.1-i386-dvd.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292583424 May 13 15:33 rhel-server-supplementary-6.1-i386-dvd.iso
./images: total 132152 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135184384 May 11 00:30 install.img
Just a guess but you could give it a try.
Simon
At Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
The command line I am using is:
sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
I have never used virt-install or Fedora 15 but, maybe you have to do the same here like when installing RHEL6 using the iso image on a NFS server: In the directory where the ISO is, you have to create a directory called images and put the install.img from the DVD there. For RHEL6.1 the dirlisting looks like this:
[root@blubb i386]# ll -R .: total 3496772 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 18:20 images -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 May 19 18:13 MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218103808 May 12 12:53 rhel-server-6.1-i386-boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3066486784 May 13 07:13 rhel-server-6.1-i386-dvd.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292583424 May 13 15:33 rhel-server-supplementary-6.1-i386-dvd.iso
./images: total 132152 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135184384 May 11 00:30 install.img
Just a guess but you could give it a try.
Simon
I found the problem -- I think I was selecting some *off screen* when tabing to the 'next' button using the GUI installer -- part of the GUI is off screen. (I am forced to use the GUI installer, since the text installer won't install things the way I want to (minimual install, using an ext3 file system). When I just hit return on the boot setup screen, it works (worked) properly. There is something really wrong with either virt-viewer or the FC15 installer -- either virt-viewer is lying about the screen size or the FC15 installer is making dumb assumptions about the monitor size or something like that.
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On 06/01/2011 12:53 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
(I am forced to use the GUI installer, since the text installer won't install things the way I want to (minimual install, using an ext3 file system)
You should be able to use a kickstart file to specify all options supported by Anaconda.
On 1.6.2011 19.52, Robert Heller wrote:
I have a CentOS 5.6 system with a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 (which does not provide hardware virtualization support, so I can't use the --cdrom option) and I am *trying* to install FC15 as a guest O/S using a local FC15 DVD-ROM image. Everything work until the installer *insists* on firing up the network to get the repo data, etc. I have a *dial-up* Internet connection and this is a *desktop* machine and is thus pretty much anchored where it is. I have googled this, but it seems no one uses local DVD images. (Of cource *everyone* in the world, except for rural America, has broadband.)
I was able to install FC15 on a old IDE disk connected via a USB port after booting a burned copy of the DVD. *Everything* needed to install the *minimual* system I want to install is there on the DVD, but I can't seem to get the FC15 installer to believe that. I *don't* want or need the updates at this time (maybe later).
Oh, and the virt-viewer is chopping off the right third of the graphical display. Is there any way to fix that? It would let me resize the viewer window and does not provide scroll bars, etc. Or is the FC15 installer having a stupid idea of the virtual machine virtual monitor size? Can *that* be changed (the virtual machine's virtual monitor size)?
The command line I am using is:
sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
I never could do a virt-install using only optical media, and I tried many times (couple of months ago). Also I could not get the --connect clause to work for me.
This kind of procedure did work:
# first, mount the DVD: mount -o loop /root/centos56_64.iso /mnt/centos56
# then... virt-install --name mail \ --os-variant rhel5.4 --ram 1024 \ --vcpus 2 --accelerate \ --nographics -v \ --location /mnt/centos56/ --network bridge:br0 \ --disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=290 \ --extra-args "console=ttyS0";
# and when the installer asks, select "http" and a repo
You can create a local http repo on the host itself and give that to the installer, for example http://127.0.0.1/centos/etc...
Maybe you could build a local repo using the materials on the DVD. I think I did not try that.
Http install with the CentOS 4 installer was *very* strict and quirky about slashes in the http repo address. Not sure about FC. Check this thread:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,193648,194173#msg-194173
- Jussi
At Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:30:28 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 1.6.2011 19.52, Robert Heller wrote:
I have a CentOS 5.6 system with a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 (which does not provide hardware virtualization support, so I can't use the --cdrom option) and I am *trying* to install FC15 as a guest O/S using a local FC15 DVD-ROM image. Everything work until the installer *insists* on firing up the network to get the repo data, etc. I have a *dial-up* Internet connection and this is a *desktop* machine and is thus pretty much anchored where it is. I have googled this, but it seems no one uses local DVD images. (Of cource *everyone* in the world, except for rural America, has broadband.)
I was able to install FC15 on a old IDE disk connected via a USB port after booting a burned copy of the DVD. *Everything* needed to install the *minimual* system I want to install is there on the DVD, but I can't seem to get the FC15 installer to believe that. I *don't* want or need the updates at this time (maybe later).
Oh, and the virt-viewer is chopping off the right third of the graphical display. Is there any way to fix that? It would let me resize the viewer window and does not provide scroll bars, etc. Or is the FC15 installer having a stupid idea of the virtual machine virtual monitor size? Can *that* be changed (the virtual machine's virtual monitor size)?
The command line I am using is:
sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
I never could do a virt-install using only optical media, and I tried many times (couple of months ago). Also I could not get the --connect clause to work for me.
This kind of procedure did work:
# first, mount the DVD: mount -o loop /root/centos56_64.iso /mnt/centos56
# then... virt-install --name mail \ --os-variant rhel5.4 --ram 1024 \ --vcpus 2 --accelerate \ --nographics -v \ --location /mnt/centos56/ --network bridge:br0 \ --disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=290 \ --extra-args "console=ttyS0";
# and when the installer asks, select "http" and a repo
You can create a local http repo on the host itself and give that to the installer, for example http://127.0.0.1/centos/etc...
Maybe you could build a local repo using the materials on the DVD. I think I did not try that.
I mount the ISO image using the loop back define (-o loop) and created a virtual host whose DocumentRoot was the loop back mount point of the DVD:
Line in /etc/fstab:
/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso /fc15x86_64 iso9660 ro,loop 0 0
http virthost spec:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName fc15.deepsoft.com DocumentRoot /fc15x86_64 <Directory /fc15x86_64> AllowOverride all Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> </VirtualHost>
This seems to work, so long as one does not select random unseen options in the GUI installer... :-(
Http install with the CentOS 4 installer was *very* strict and quirky about slashes in the http repo address. Not sure about FC. Check this thread:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,193648,194173#msg-194173
- Jussi
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