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-netinstall.iso > >> > >> > >> 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