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

[Heath Yob]

Thanks both of you for your replies.

Both ideas worked out so thanks you for that.

Thanks,

Heath

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Torsten Krueger <krueger at hkn.de> 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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