I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
This should be very simple, right? :-)
- Jussi Hirvi Helsinki
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
- Jussi
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
Try using ftp:// instead.
I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse anaconda.
-- Pasi
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
On 8.10.2009 15:22, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Try using ftp:// instead.
I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse anaconda.
-- Pasi
Ok, thanks! Problem solved!
- Jussi
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On 8.10.2009 16:14, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
On 8.10.2009 15:22, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Try using ftp:// instead.
I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse anaconda.
-- Pasi
Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking for ftp server, and path containing OS for my architecture. I gave for example the following two values: ftp.funet.fi pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386 (the latter with and without slashes at beginning and end), but always I get the same dialog screen back after a couple of minutes of blank screen. No error messages.
So I am baffled again. Has someone been here before?
- Jussi Hirvi
Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking for ftp server, and path containing OS for my architecture. I gave for example the following two values: ftp.funet.fi pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386 (the latter with and without slashes at beginning and end), but always I get the same dialog screen back after a couple of minutes of blank screen. No error messages.
So I am baffled again. Has someone been here before?
Hi
I was trying to install using virt-manager whit FTP to point to the files (mounted with loop) in the field "Install Media URL", but it was always failing with the message was not finding the installation files. For me works only if I extract the files from the iso image and access using NFS.
The FTP works fine if I use inside the kickstart.
Regards
mg.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia < marcelo.maia.garcia@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking for ftp server, and path containing OS for my architecture. I gave for example the following two values: ftp.funet.fi pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386 (the latter with and without slashes at beginning and end), but always I get the same dialog screen back after a couple of minutes of blank screen. No error messages.
So I am baffled again. Has someone been here before?
Hi
I was trying to install using virt-manager whit FTP to point to the files (mounted with loop) in the field "Install Media URL", but it was always failing with the message was not finding the installation files. For me works only if I extract the files from the iso image and access using NFS.
The FTP works fine if I use inside the kickstart.
Regards
mg.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
It needs to look similar to the following.
+-----------------+ HTTP Setup +------------------+ | | | Please enter the following information: | | | | o the name or IP number of your Web server | | o the directory on that server containing | | CentOS for your architecture | | | | Web site name: mirror.clarkson.edu_____ | | CentOS directory: /centos/5/os/i386/______ | | | | +----+ +------+ | | | OK | | Back | | | +----+ +------+ | | | | | +-------------------------------------------------+
-- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10
mccarrms@gmail.com mccarrms@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia <marcelo.maia.garcia@googlemail.com mailto:marcelo.maia.garcia@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program > virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking for > ftp server, and path containing OS for my architecture. I gave for > example the following two values: > ftp.funet.fi <http://ftp.funet.fi> > pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386 <http://centos.org/5.3/os/i386> > (the latter with and without slashes at beginning and end), > but always I get the same dialog screen back after a couple of minutes > of blank screen. No error messages. > > So I am baffled again. Has someone been here before? > Hi I was trying to install using virt-manager whit FTP to point to the files (mounted with loop) in the field "Install Media URL", but it was always failing with the message was not finding the installation files. For me works only if I extract the files from the iso image and access using NFS. The FTP works fine if I use inside the kickstart. Regards mg. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 8.10.2009 19:04, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:
It needs to look similar to the following.
+-----------------+ HTTP Setup +------------------+ | | | Please enter the following information: | | | | o the name or IP number of your Web server | | o the directory on that server containing | | CentOS for your architecture | | | | Web site name: mirror.clarkson.edu_____ | | CentOS directory: /centos/5/os/i386/______ | | | | +----+ +------+ | | | OK | | Back | | | +----+ +------+ | | | | | +-------------------------------------------------+
Hello,
Thanks for many good tips. I tried both ftp and http, both ftp.funet.fi and mirror.clarkson.edu, and always I end up soon after the above dialog screen (in Mathew's message) with the following error:
+---------------+ 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
+---------------+ 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?
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
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?
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?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:00:58PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On 8.10.2009 16:14, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
On 8.10.2009 15:22, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Try using ftp:// instead.
I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse anaconda.
-- Pasi
Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking for ftp server, and path containing OS for my architecture. I gave for example the following two values: ftp.funet.fi pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386 (the latter with and without slashes at beginning and end), but always I get the same dialog screen back after a couple of minutes of blank screen. No error messages.
So I am baffled again. Has someone been here before?
I've installed MANY times from ftp.funet.fi using ftp:// (and virt-install or virt-manager). Works for me.
-- Pasi
Ok, time to wrap this up. My error was that when virt-install first asked for network information, I gave it values that did not work at that time (values for another live machine that I meant to replace with the new virtual machine).
I did not realize, these values were only for the installation, not for the newly-created virtual guest.
After that, the installation from my own http "mirror" (over gigabit net) started ok. It is still running, about as fast as from an optical drive.
- Jussi
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik@iki.fi wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:54:47PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
I am installing my first xen system (CentOS 5.3). The host system seems to be ok.
I am following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386-p2
Now I try to use virt-install to install the first guest system, but I cannot find a working install source.
I have tried at least these:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-net...
Always I get "Could not find an installable distribution".
What should I use as path?
On 8.10.2009 13:28, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
It's not looking for ISOs. Try this:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/
-Giovanni
Thanks, that seems to work. (Funny, I thought I had tried that already.)
Now I get another odd error, though (though maybe temporary):
ValueError: Invalid URL location given:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/vmlinuz
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
...though I can start downloading that file manually in the browser quite ok.
Anyway, I will try that path again another time, let's see.
Try using ftp:// instead.
I think funet is using some fancy http error pages that confuse anaconda.
-- Pasi
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You want to use something like this for virt-install:
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/ or http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/
Matt
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