I would like to use a logical volume as a "physical" drive on which I can install a fedora operating system. As of now, when I run xenguest- installer, it treats the install location that I specified ( which is an unformatted logical volume that I had just created ) as a physical drive (named "xvda") and allows me to perform a basic install on it. When I look at that logical volume, it comes up as a "foreign" device, because it contains a /boot directory, and a volume group consisting of a / directory and a swap directory. I was wondering how to mimic that effect without using my xenguest-installer program, so that when I pop a CD in and the installer starts up, I can specify a logical volume and let the installer treat it as a physical drive just like the xenguest-installer program does.
I am trying to accomplish this because I was unable to install FC4 via the xenguest-installer. I had mounted the image as a loopback device to /var/ftp/pub and specified the /pub directory in FTP server's root folder as my "Installation source", and was greeted by an error from my FTP server (vsftpd) saying "550 Failed to change directory". When I do the exact same thing except mount the FC6 iso instead of the FC4 iso, everything works fine. What could I be doing wrong?
If all else fails, I guess I can just specify in my /etc/xen/xm- fc4-001 file the kernel and the ramdisk parameters, and install FC4 on an ext3 formatted logical volume specified as the / directory, and thus reuse my existing /boot directory instead of trying to use the pygrub bootloader with a new /boot directory. In this case, where could I find a compiled xenU kernel and an appropriate initrd image for FC4?
Thank you very much and happy new years to all!
Justin Wickett Duke 2010 http://www.duke.edu/~jyw2