Re: [Vserver] RHEL4 guest on Gentoo host

From: John Alberts <john.m.alberts_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2006 - 03:24:13 BST
Message-ID: <a23b6f900607021924j5e76a080x7fbf6a8c57f6d1a9@mail.gmail.com>

Could you explain this a little more please? Where do I get the
initial RHEL base to use for the vserver-new command? I'm running
Gentoo for the host and I have Gentoo tarballs to use with
vserver-new.

thx

On 6/30/06, Daniel W. Crompton <daniel.crompton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/30/06, John Alberts <john.m.alberts@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried asking this question on the gentoo-vserver irc channel, but
> > unfortunately I didn't get any response at all. I currently have a
> > Gentoo host that is running multiple Gentoo guest os's. I have
> > someone who wants me to install a RHEL4 guest for him, because he is
> > more comfortable with it and it is required for this project. I
> > really have no idea how to go about creating a guest other than a
> > Gentoo guest. With Gentoo, I have a nice tarball that I started with,
> > and I just updated that and use it for my template.
> > With RHEL4, I have the install cd's. I have no idea how to go about
> > using these cd's to install it as a guest.
> > Any help or pointing me to some related docs would be appreciated.
>
> I created an empty vserver in /vservers/RHEL4-base/ with "vserver-new".
>
> I used "rpm -i --prefix /vservers/RHEL4-base/" to install rpm and
> bash, with all the other package requirements I needed for these to
> work.
>
> I modified the /etc/vserver/RHEL4-base/fstab to include the mounted
> cdrom drive on /mnt/cdrom.
>
> I then chroot "/vservers/RHEL4-base/ /bin/bash" and installed all the
> packages I needed for a base image I could copy.
>
> >From that I created a tgz I could install with vserver-new.
>
> D.
>
>
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>
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