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OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1680]

Mon, 20 February 2006 05:22

hauntmisery
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heya, when making a os template can it only be made offo the base os that you have on the sever? i want to make other os templates.. like a trustix os template.. thanks Amy

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Re: OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1681 is a reply to message #1680]

Mon, 20 February 2006 06:35

kir
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Surely you can create your own OS templates, that is not that hard -- the basic idea is you install some packages in a chrooted environment and then create a tarball out of it. This tarball is to be put into /vz/template/cache and used during vzctl create stage.

Kir Kolyshkin

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Re: OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1682 is a reply to message #1680]

Mon, 20 February 2006 06:42

hauntmisery
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i dont understand fully.. i need a trustix template

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Re: OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1683 is a reply to message #1682]

Mon, 20 February 2006 06:51

kir
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So you have to create one, or find somebody who will create it, or wait when OpenVZ developers will create one (definitely not today).

Kir Kolyshkin

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Re: OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1684 is a reply to message #1680]

Mon, 20 February 2006 06:52

hauntmisery
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how do i creat 1 with packages? do i just need the iso file or wat?

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Re: OS Templates Only Base OS? [message #1691 is a reply to message #1684]

Mon, 20 February 2006 09:25

kir
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As I said above, you need to install all the packages you need in your VPS into a chrooted environment (use rpm --root for that) and then tar the resulting environment into a gzipped tarball.

Kir Kolyshkin

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