[Fedora-xen] Install location for FC7 as a guest

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:48:32PM -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using 'virt-manager', paravirtualization, to install FC7 as a guest
> under FC7.  I can't seem to find a network install location that works.
> 
> The Fedora site list many ftp and http mirror sites for installing.  I can
> ping them and verify they are alive.  My problem is I don't know how deep to
> go into the directory tree to get something that anaconda likes.
> 
> I tried 'http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux'  The error
> message I get is "Unable to complete install: Invalid URL given."

You need to specify the path to the specific distro release+arch tree. 
For example for Fedora 7 on x86_64

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/

> Can I take the FC7 DVD, mount it and then ftp to it?

Yes, you can export the DVD using a FTP/NFS/HTTP from your Dom0 host.

Regards,
Dan.
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