Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 15:27, schrieb Tony Mountifield: > In article<4d44212c.6050...@gmx.de>, Rainer Traut wrote: >> I had to use this cmdline to make the initrd: >> KVER=$(uname -a|awk '{print $3}')xen > > Don't need awk: KVER=$(uname -r)xen Thx, Tony. I wrote it at 3am for a presentation that day... :)

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Sanjay Arora: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: >> >> To get an image into the cloud I did: >> - format a 10GiB file with ext3 >> - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) >> - put this into S3 as an AMI >> - start an instanc

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: > > To get an image into the cloud I did: > - format a 10GiB file with ext3 > - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) > - put this into S3 as an AMI > - start an instance of it > - clone this to an EBS file with rsync >

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4d44212c.6050...@gmx.de>, Rainer Traut wrote: > I had to use this cmdline to make the initrd: > KVER=$(uname -a|awk '{print $3}')xen Don't need awk: KVER=$(uname -r)xen Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: t...@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: t...@mountifield.org - h

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 09:36, schrieb Sanjay Arora: > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > want. > > Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from > scratch or an existing minimal

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:53:45AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/29/11 12:36 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > Hello > > > > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > > want. > > > > Despite loo

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > good luck with the persistence part in a cloud.  the whole idea of > clouds is to distribute your services and separate them from the > physical instances.   EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. > Well, Data/OS File

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Basically what Mathieu is wishing me luck for ;-) > Sorry, it was John! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
Basically what Mathieu is wishing me luck for ;-) I want to create a server which I can use while in development stage, use as a main image, copy of which I can instantiate as a base image, build a apache webserver app image or a qmail mail-server image or a workgroup /db / crm image etc..upgr

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> physical instances.   EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. Could you please elaborate a bit? What do you think should be left on the physical servers? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/29/11 12:36 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello > > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > want. > > Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from > scratch or an existin

[CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I want. Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from scratch or an existing minimal CentOS image that is bootable from EBS. My ser