[CentOS-virt] virt-install in CentOS 5

Thu Mar 20 16:34:41 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

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