Am 29.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Sanjay Arora: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Traut<tr.ml at gmx.de> wrote: >> >> To get an image into the cloud I did: >> - format a 10GiB file with ext3 >> - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) >> - put this into S3 as an AMI >> - start an instance of it >> - clone this to an EBS file with rsync >> - make a snapshot of this EBS >> - convert this snapshot to an EBS AMI >> - use your EBS instances... >> > Looking exactly for something like this...but more detailed. I have > slow dsl...so I would rather use somebody else's centos image to build > my own. > > Have found many howtos but all seem to be for just for copying some > other ami and then reconfiguring it, or else they are too technical > for me to dive into. > For building the image: http://bodgitandscarper.co.uk/category/amazon-ec2/ But as I said I had to use another mkinitrd cmd. The image will be compressed once you upload it, mine was around 300mb. Rainer