On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant > <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > > > Quote from an actual installation: > > > > [root at xenh4 ~]# history| grep virt > > virt-install -n dhcpdns -p -r 1024 --os-type=linux --vnc -f > > /var/lib/xen/images/dhcpdns -s 2 -l > > http://192.168.50.40/mrepo/centos6-i386/disc1 -x > > "ks=ftp://192.168.50.40/linux/ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg" > > > > [root at xenh4 ~]# uname -a > > Linux xenh4 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 02:18:37 EST 2014 > i686 > > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > > https://github.com/CentOS/Community-Kickstarts/blob/master/ks-minimalC6.cfg > > is quite close to the above mentioned ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg ( actually > both > > are descendants of the same template of mine ) > > Thanks!!!! The key, hinted at by various notes in this thread, was the > use of the "--location" to point to a network accessibleinstallation > repository. I'm afraid that the Xen wiki directions about "--location" > are a bit unclear about the need for this to be the base of a > deployment directory, one that *must* have a working subdirectory > called 'imagex/xen' with the relevant files in it. I admint, I have to > just love hardcoded, hidden requirements!!! > > I'll point out for others who may need to image systems quickly that > it's often more effective, especially in terms of speed and external > bandwidth, to use an internal mirror as you did. I'll also point out > that it can be awfully handy to keep such a mirror up-to-date and use > it your local configurations. I publish such scripts at > https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rsync-scripts, in case anyone else > wants them. > > I'll also mention my old habit in ks.cfg files of doing this, to hang > onto the actual ks.cfg instead of the confused and '%pre' and '%post' > stripped, anaconda reverse engineered oddness in > /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. > > %pre > cp -f /tmp/ks.cfg /mnt/sysimage/root/ks.cfg > %end > _______________________________________________ > > Nico, I wrote tutorials on how to do this when I was using xen. I haven't used these tutorials in a couple of years but they worked then so they should still work now. This is for an automated CentOS 6 (x86_64). http://grantmcwilliams.com/item/538-centos-6-virtual-machine-64-bit-installation-on-xen Grant McWilliams http://grantmcwilliams.com/ Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." Now they have two problems. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20150318/0cb8edec/attachment-0006.html>