Does anyone know why the above doesn't work for a Fedora 8 domU on a CentOS 5 dom0? I'm completely mystified.
Does your mirror have the identical structure and data as the original?
Yes. I've even gone so far as test with a public mirror. I get the same errors.
Just couple of weeks ago I installed Fedora8 on CentOS 5.1 using the following command: virt-install -b xenbr0 -p -n fedora8 -r 512 -f /dev/VolGroup00/fedora8 --nographics -l ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/
Regards,
Mindaugas