[xen-tools-discuss] CentOS guests on Debian 5 Host

Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 09:06:38 CET 2010


Wouldn't doing a full install instead of a sparse one do the trick?

On 12/22/10 8:55 AM, Torsten Krueger wrote:
> Hi Heath,
>
>> Now the system gets made but I get an error at the end of the build:
>> Setting up root password
>> 'passwd' command not found in the new install.
>> All done
> there are some packages missing in the installed CentOS System and that prevents yum from running and the authentication system (e.g. passwd) from working. Do the following:
>
> Edit /etc/rinse/centos-5-packages and add
>        nss
>        nspr
>        python-iniparse
>        wget
>
> After that you should get a working Centos-5 instance. Centos-4 may be the same problem - I did not figure that out.
>
> Regards
> Torsten
>
>



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