[xen-tools] Gentoo is now supported!

[Steve Kemp]

  I've now successfully setup a fully networked installation of Gentoo
 using an image which was downloaded from jailtime.org.  This mail
 contains a brief howto on doing it.


  1.  Install CVS version of Xen-Tools - to get '--dist=gentoo' support.

  2.  Download the gentoo image:

        http://jailtime.org/download:gentoo:v2006.0

  3.  Uncompress the tarball and rename the disk image to 'gentoo.img'.
      The xen configuration file and swap image can be deleted.

  4.  Now mount the image using a loopback device - so we can copy
     the files from it to "install" the new system:

       modprobe loop max_loop=255
       mkdir /mnt/gentoo
       mount -o loop,ro gentoo.img /mnt/gentoo

  5.  Create a new Xen instance using that mounted image as a template
     to copy from:

       xen-create-image --hostname=g.my.flat --ip=192.168.1.234 \
         --dist=gentoo --copy=/mnt/gentoo

      (Note: Make sure "debootstrap=1" is *commented out* in the 
       xen-tools.conf file).

  6.  Wait.

  7.  Enjoy.

  8.  Note:  Username='root', password: 'password', if you didn't set
     it up explicitly with --passwd.

  I've tested static addresses and DHCP addresses.  Note that this
 setup currently relies upon having SSH installed in the base image
 which is copied; thankfully this is the case in the Jailtime.org
 image.

  If anybody else is interested in this kind of mail let me know,
 ditto if you have another system-type which you'd like me to support.

Steve
-- 
http://www.steve.org.uk/