On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 20:35 -0800, Mark D. Foster wrote:

Try passing

http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os as the base url.

I've tried that too, and even though I wasn't very clear about it in my original email, it's what I used for the CentOS 5 domU installs. Anyway, for Fedora 8, that base USL makes virt-install bomb out even harder:

[root@xenmaster apcupsd]# virt-install -p -n krs -r 512 -m 00:16:3E:66:94:5F -b xenbr0 --vnc --vncport=5910 -l http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os -f /dev/vg00/krs -d

Starting install... Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Cannot find file Fedora Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Server Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Cannot find file Server Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Client Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Cannot find file Client Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/RedHat Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Cannot find file RedHat Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/CentOS Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Cannot find file CentOS Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Fetching URI http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/directory.... Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:37 DEBUG Doesn't look like a Suse distro Invalid URL location given: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found ERROR: Could not find an installable distribution the install location

What the hell is virt-install doing? Why isn't it just looking for the xen kernel in the images sub-dir of that base url?

Regards,

Ranbir

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 08:56 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

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http://10.19.75.200/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os as the base url.

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?

-Ross

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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

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 09:48 +0200, Mindaugas wrote:

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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/

Well, I tried to run my previous virt-install command with the location set to a Fedora 8 ftp mirror: lo and behold, the install started. WTF?!

I either have a borked installation of the python-virtinst package, or there's a bug in virt-install for http locations.

Did you try with a trailing slash on http .. I see there is one on ftp?

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 18:41 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

I tried that a while ago, just in case, but it didn't help. I'm still clued out as to why http installs fail for Fedora 8 domUs, but work just fine for CentOS 5 domUs.

I've done more testing and a http install works when I use this:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/

but, fails when I use my internal mirror.

My internal mirror is just a rsync of the Fedora 8 DVD. As far as I can tell, it's exactly the same as what all the other Fedora 8 mirrors. Obviously, something is different.

Am I supposed to recreate the Fedora 8 DVD repo data or do something similar before I can do an http domU install?

Regards,

Ranbir

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:29:58 -0400:

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http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/

but, fails when I use my internal mirror.

My internal mirror is just a rsync of the Fedora 8 DVD.

Then compare the two. There must be something different. Maybe Fedora DVDs are different from their repos. Maybe just an additional or removed word in the path. I can just talk about CentOS and there I have successfully installed from mirrors that I created by copying the DVD to the drive and by rsyncing the latest CentOS base repo.

Kai's right the CD/DVD repo has a different directory structure then the HTTP repo. Not a problem when using 'yum' as it finds out the structure from 'repodata', but for clients that want to directly access the data it can throw them for a loop.

-Ross

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:15 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

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Then compare the two. There must be something different. Maybe Fedora DVDs are different from their repos. Maybe just an additional or removed word in the path. I can just talk about CentOS and there I have successfully installed from mirrors that I created by copying the DVD to the drive and by rsyncing the latest CentOS base repo.

Well, I actually tried that last night. I did a rsync dryrun against kernel.org's Fedora 8 mirror, and got these differences:

4100 files to consider ./ .discinfo Packages/ Packages/compiz-manager-0.6.0-3.fc8.noarch.rpm Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm Packages/hal-info-20071030-1.fc8.noarch.rpm Packages/kernel-doc-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.noarch.rpm Packages/system-config-date-1.9.16-1.fc8.noarch.rpm images/ images/pxeboot/ images/xen/ isolinux/ isolinux/isolinux.bin repodata/ repodata/Fedora-8-comps.xml repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 repodata/filelists.xml.gz repodata/other.sqlite.bz2 repodata/other.xml.gz repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 repodata/primary.xml.gz repodata/repomd.xml repoview/ repoview/layout/ stylesheet-images/

This was the command I ran:

rsync -rlptDvzn --progress mirrors.kernel.org::fedora/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ /srv/intranet/iso-images/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/

So, I synchronized my local copy against kernel.org, but when I ran virt-install again, it still failed. Now I'm really confused.

Apache permissions problem?

Mime types problem (.rpm needs to be set text/plain)?

-Ross

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