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Installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) as a Vserver guest As Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) is the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, it would be a good choice to install as a server. A lot of this information is from the OpenVZ guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVZ. This guide requires that you have configured your /etc/vservers/.default correctly __TOC__ == Prerequisites == * debootstrap [Vserver-host] $ sudo apt-get install debootstrap == Debootstraping in Ubuntu == [Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest build -m debootstrap \ --context 42 --hostname hardy-guest --force \ --interface eth0:10.0.0.123/8 \ -- -d hardy -m http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ \ -- --arch=i386 --exclude=udev You will receive the following warning 5 times (obviously): W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times. You can safely ignore them, as we will fix this later == Removing unneeded services == By default klogd and rmnologin runs at startup of the guest, it is not necessary, and will slow down the startup time of your guest, you better remove them [Vserver-host] $ cd /[path_of_vservers]/hardy-guest/etc/rc3.d [Vserver-host] $ rm S11klogd S99rmnologin You should also remove unneeded shutdown scripts [Vserver-host] $ cd /[path_of_vservers]/hardy-guest/etc/rc6.d [Vserver-host] $ rm * You should add a link for killing sysklogd [Vserver-host] $ ln -s ../init.d/sysklogd K11sysklogd == Starting guest and fixing group 11 issue == Now it is time to start your new vserver and enter it: [Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest start It will return the following: /etc/init.d/rc: 166: cannot open /dev/console: No such file * Starting system log daemon... ...done. * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) ...done. Then you can enter your vserver [Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest enter It will return the following: id: cannot find name for group ID 11 === Fixing the "/etc/init.d/rc: 166: cannot open /dev/console: No such file" issue === Open /etc/init.d/rc in your favorite editor root@hardy-guest:/# vim /etc/init.d/rc Find the following lines and comment them out by perpending them with an "#" (this has been done in the example) They will be at line 163-166 # Set onlcr to avoid staircase effect. #if [ "$QUIET" != yes ]; then # stty onlcr </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 #fi Save and quit === Fixing the "id: cannot find name for group ID 11" issue === I don't know what the group really shoud be, but I just added the group "void" as group 11. Someone who knows what it should be, could probably correct it. root@hardy-guest:/# groupadd -g 11 void == Removing unneeded packages == There are some packages you obviously would not need in a vserver-guest: * DHCP3 * busybox-initramfs * console-setup * dmidecode eject * ethtool * initramfs-tools * klibc-utils * laptop-detect * libiw29 * libklibc * libvolume-id0 * mii-diag * module-init-tools * ntpdate * pciutils * pcmciautils * ubuntu-minimal * udev usbutils * wireless-tools * wpasupplicant * xkb-data * tasksel * tasksel-data So you should start up your new guest and enter it and remove them. [hardy-guest] $ apt-get remove --purge busybox-initramfs console-setup dmidecode eject \ ethtool initramfs-tools klibc-utils laptop-detect libiw29 libklibc \ libvolume-id0 mii-diag module-init-tools ntpdate pciutils pcmciautils ubuntu-minimal \ udev usbutils wireless-tools wpasupplicant xkb-data tasksel tasksel-data \ dhcp3-client dhcp3-server == Finished == Now you have installed hardy from debootstrap, and hopefully everything is working Remember that you will have to create symlinks to services in /etc/rc6.d in order for them to be stopped when running 'vserver [vservername] stop' [[Category:OS guest under linux-vserver]]
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