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> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Marc Teichgraeber
> Sent: 26 January 2007 14:35
> To: Gerd Hoffmann; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] howto install from
> cd/network/image/foo with 3.03
>
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > H,
> >
> >
> >> They can configure the an installation medium with YaST
> but i dont find
> >> out how they do it.
> >>
> >
> > Booting the installer without the yast-xen module:
> > http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/xen/suse-guest.html
> >
> Thank you very much, but didnt worked for me and it didnt answered my
> question really i think.
>
> Nice to know how the SuSE-guys do it, but i tried to install an
> 9.3-guest on the 10.2-host and it failed.
> I used the files "um-host-install-initrd-1.0-50.i586.rpm",
> "kernel-xen-2.6.11.4-20a.i586.rpm" and the script
> "suse-prepare-install"
> in a dir, which created me an kernel, but no ramdisk and the create
> command didnt work and so on ....
>
> But I want to know how the general way in Xen 3.0.3 is to boot from
> installation media of any kind. Maybe was the answer in your
> link and i
> just didnt get it, but i dont think so. You are making an
> special kernel
> and ramdisk which you give the create command on the commandline and
> overwrites the domain-config-file. But that feels like a trick to me.
>
> And I think I'm not the first person who is asking this, I saw the
> question come up often on this list. Like "Hey, whats
> happened to this
> option "boot='d'", it didnt work anymore." But no Answers. Or Answers
> like "Hmm, yeah, ure right, they changed something, use the
> code, Luke"
For HVM (not para-virtual domains), you can just specify either a CDROM-drive
or a .iso as the source of the installation for the virtual cdrom-drive. Is
that what you're asking about?
Just add the relevant 'phy:/dev/hdd,hdc:cdrom,r' or
'file:/someplace/file.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' as appropriate to "disk=" in your
config.
I managed to use "boot=d" (actually, "boot='cd'" was what I used, but it booted
from the DVD-device) yesterday for a SuSE 9.1 (although it got stuck part-way
into the install, but looking at the state of the DVD, I wouldn't be surprised
if it was caused by "dirty DVD" rather than anyhting else).
I don't do PV at all, so I can't say if that's supposed to work or not for
para-virtual domains.
--
Mats
>
> So does anyone know how it works or can tell me please where to look?
>
> radar
>
>
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