[xenpreview-dev] Fix for Xen Paravirtualized Guest Installation (SLES 10 Beta 10 / SL 10.1 RC1)

[Charles Coffing]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at  7:54 AM, in message
<44439E0C.7090409 at godawa.de>, Thorolf Godawa <nospam at godawa.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Second Issue:
>> SLES 10 Beta 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 paravirtualized guest
>> installations do not work in the official builds.
>> Workaround:
>> 1) Create an install source.
> what is the correct way to create easily an install source on an 
> NFS- server?

Nothing special; just do a recursive copy to your NFS root, e.g.:
mkdir -p /srv/nfs/SLES10
cp -ax /media/dvd/* /srv/nfs/SLES10

As long as all the files are copied and the directory structure is
maintained, it's an installation source.  No special setup needed.

> Is there also a network- boot- cd for SLES 10.0 like I can dl 
> for OSS 10.1?

Yes; this is the "mini" ISO on the FTP sites.  Look for
"SLES-10-i386-Beta10-mini.iso".
 
>> 2) Replace the install- initrd... RPM in your install source tree
with
>> the appropriate RPM located on the Novell/SUSE Xen Technical
Preview
> Is it possible to create a new installation- cd with the fixed
package?

We won't be doing that for beta 10, AFAIK.  The next CD will be beta 11
(finished this week; released next week).