Re: [Vserver] debian host wants centos guest

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon 14 May 2007 - 16:35:12 BST
Message-ID: <20070514153510.GA27211@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:16:33PM +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> mail@cryptronic.de wrote:
> >>thanks ,
> >>
> >>
> >>i setup the beast and have yum installed but..:
> >>
> >>bash-3.00# yum update
> >>Setting up Update Process
> >>Setting up repositories
> >>not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - Null is not a valid
> >>release or hasnt been released yet
> >>Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
> >>Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
> >>
> >>i cannot seems to make this works :)
> >>using vyum on the host works (this is how i setup yum on the guest. But
> >>inside it it fails :(
> >>
> >> i tried to install whitebox linux but i failed also to find how to build
> >>the guest so i stick with centos :)
> >>
> >hi,
> >
> >i have some finished centos 5 images for linux vserver:
> >http://www.cryptronic.de/wiki/Vserver_en:images_for_openvcp
> >
> >to get yum working:
> >
> >edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> >
> >and replace $releasever and $basearch with hardcoded values eg
> >$relesevar: 5
> >$basearch: i386
> >
> >after that yum works quite fine.
>
> Why would you do that? Why doesn't it have centos-release installed, and
> why can't it figure out the architecture on its own?
>
> >best regards
> >
> >oliver werner
> >
> >htpt://www.cryptronic.de
>
> What's HTPT? ;-)

a tpyo :)

have fun,
Herbert

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> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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