Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:09 AM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> Vladimir Romanov <bluebo...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Well, what's the problem? When i do this, then i just install debian, xen
>>> kernel, then create some config, download gentoo install cd, run it, and
>>> follow the handbook.
>>
>> How do you run the installer CD in a PV VM?  It's not like you could
>> just boot it, or can you?
>>
>
> Correct.  I don't believe our install CDs are xen-enabled.  You would
> need to boot from another environment, or install the files from
> outside of the xen environment.  When I'm installing Gentoo on ec2 now
> I typically just boot any convenient EMI, mount an EBS image, extract
> a stage3, then install/configure a xen-enabled kernel.

ec2? emi? ebs?

> I haven't done an EC2 install in a while but I do have a .config that
> used to work lying around.  I believe most of the instructions are on
> my blog as well - probably one of the more visited pages as it is
> probably helpful for getting any distro working on EC2/Xen.
>
> --
> Rich
>
>
>

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