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Re: [Xen-devel] debian packages of xen

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

>
> > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Adam Heath wrote:
> >
> > > I have debian packages of xen just about done.  I'm creating 10 debs,
> > > containin the various parts of the library, tools, and kernels.
> >
> > Well, I have uploaded them to Debian.  However, they are not yet available 
> > on
> > the mirror network, as they are NEW packages, so require addition to the
> > override file by ftp-master.
>
> Cool.
>
> I don't suppose there's a live ISO variant of debian?

Unforunately, no.

> People seem to be quite keen to install directly from the
> XenDemoCD, which isn't recommended as I had to do some pretty
> evil things (including leaving out the RPM database) to get it to
> fit on the CD and run out of a ram disk. It would be nice to move
> to something more standard for the next XenDemoCD release.

Well, if my debs make it easier to get a regular debian machine running xen,
then I think it's a win.

I was able to convert my desktop to xen during the 1.0 days, with relative
ease.



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