[xen-tools] Re: Trying to get centos-5 installed with xen-tools/rinse

[Bryan Gartner]

Henning,

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:03:12PM +0000, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I fiddled around with it a bit these days, here the problems I ran
> into (and finally, got solved):

I had exactly the same issues here, and all of your workarounds
(sans the passwd one) seems to work.

> 4) in debian, this is a base package, but in centos not: dhclient!
> So, as in most cases net access is required (and all other things
> needed for this seem to be st up automatically by xen-tools, otherwise
> I guess we wouldn't have th ifcfg-script at all, it should probably
> also install the dhclient package.

I just added dhclient and vim-mimimal to centos-5/post-install.sh
(along with the yum install yum line) for now.

> So far, that was it for now - with some fiddling, i got my centos with
> xenm-tools and rinse working - but with some minor fixes it cpould be
> easier, I guess.

Ditto.

bryang