Newbee - Xenoboot CD

Newbee - Xenoboot CD

[Ted Hilts]

The following is a request originally sent to the SuSE [SLE] list and 
explains my problem in trying to download the bz2 compressed tarball so 
I might customize it's contents for my LAN and use to make the Live CD 
"Xenoboot CD" .  In this request I ask for download help for which I am 
willing to pay.  My development LAN (16 computers) is located in my home 
in a rural area of Alberta, Canada and my only available Internect 
connectivity is slow dial up. If the download had worked it would have 
taken about 5 days.  But after 1 day the connection is lost.  Can anyone 
on [Xen-devel] suggest another way I might get this tarball or it's 
pieces in increments.  Or is anyone interested in being reimbursed for 
the effort per the  note sent to the [SLE] list?  See details in note below.
-------------------------

I am working on a SuSE focused project.

First, I apologize if this request is out of order.  I am (as some of 
you already know) working on a special project and I first needed help 
on Grub which I received from various people on this list.  Thanks to 
all (too many to name here) who helped me in various ways.  Nearly every 
suggestion was helpful. I post this request on [SLE] rather than [OT] 
because I know there is a fair amount of interest on [SLE].

In terms of that SuSE based project, I now need to download a 300Meg 
byte tar ball bz2 compressed file from Cambridge University and have 
been unsuccessful over my (slow) dial up line (server time out) even 
though the download utility is relentlessly persistent. I need to get 
this tarball!!!

I need this tar ball for my SuSE based project.  I am trying to find 
someone (I will pay them for their effort which will involve the 
download of this bz2 file, checking data integrity by decompressing and 
untaring the tar ball without errors -- it takes about 1.8Gig of disk 
space -- and finally putting the compressed tarball onto two data CDs -- 
one purely as backup, packaging and mailing the two CDs to me). Please 
NOTE: Details arranged by email and not over the list.

The contents of this compressed tar ball -- once customized for my LAN 
-- will be used to make a LIVE Xen CD which I will then use to build 
vitual machines (on SuSE LINUX) which will host SuSE 9.1, 9.2, etc., as 
well as other distributions.  This Live CD besides creating and 
migrating virtual Linux installations to other machines can effectively 
do back ups. In other words, this Live CD can be used to satisfy all my 
project objectives in one form or another. I have the URLs and 
instructions for the complete process (including customization) if 
anyone else is interested in doing the same thing (Josephine?).  But 
this email is specific to down loading the tar ball for Xen Live CD 
contents.

Again I wish to aplogize if this request is inappropriate but I did want 
to share what I have been doing with the list anyway in case others were 
interested.

Thanks again -- TED
.



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Re: Newbee - Xenoboot CD

[Dave Feustel]

I have had very good results having chguy
(http://chguy.net/) burn cdroms and dvds 
for me and then mailing the cdrom/dvd to me.

Dave Feustel


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Re: Newbee - Xenoboot CD

[Tim Deegan]

Hi Ted,

Just to be clear -- you know the Xenoboot CD doesn't have Xen on it,
right?  It's just a piece of boot infrastructure we use for controlling
test machines.

There will be a Xen/Debian/BSD live CD available from the Xen project
site within the next few days, which does boot to Xen (but doesn't do
the boot infrastructure things that the Xenoboot does), or alternatively
Jred Rhine has made a Xen/ttylinux boot CD which is much smaller and
would be easier to download. ( http://software.wordzoo.com/xencd/ )

Tim.


On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Ted Hilts wrote:
> The following is a request originally sent to the SuSE [SLE] list and 
> explains my problem in trying to download the bz2 compressed tarball so 
> I might customize it's contents for my LAN and use to make the Live CD 
> "Xenoboot CD" .  In this request I ask for download help for which I am 
> willing to pay.  My development LAN (16 computers) is located in my home 
> in a rural area of Alberta, Canada and my only available Internect 
> connectivity is slow dial up. If the download had worked it would have 
> taken about 5 days.  But after 1 day the connection is lost.  Can anyone 
> on [Xen-devel] suggest another way I might get this tarball or it's 
> pieces in increments.  Or is anyone interested in being reimbursed for 
> the effort per the  note sent to the [SLE] list?  See details in note below.
> -------------------------
> 
> I am working on a SuSE focused project.
> 
> First, I apologize if this request is out of order.  I am (as some of 
> you already know) working on a special project and I first needed help 
> on Grub which I received from various people on this list.  Thanks to 
> all (too many to name here) who helped me in various ways.  Nearly every 
> suggestion was helpful. I post this request on [SLE] rather than [OT] 
> because I know there is a fair amount of interest on [SLE].
> 
> In terms of that SuSE based project, I now need to download a 300Meg 
> byte tar ball bz2 compressed file from Cambridge University and have 
> been unsuccessful over my (slow) dial up line (server time out) even 
> though the download utility is relentlessly persistent. I need to get 
> this tarball!!!
> 
> I need this tar ball for my SuSE based project.  I am trying to find 
> someone (I will pay them for their effort which will involve the 
> download of this bz2 file, checking data integrity by decompressing and 
> untaring the tar ball without errors -- it takes about 1.8Gig of disk 
> space -- and finally putting the compressed tarball onto two data CDs -- 
> one purely as backup, packaging and mailing the two CDs to me). Please 
> NOTE: Details arranged by email and not over the list.
> 
> The contents of this compressed tar ball -- once customized for my LAN 
> -- will be used to make a LIVE Xen CD which I will then use to build 
> vitual machines (on SuSE LINUX) which will host SuSE 9.1, 9.2, etc., as 
> well as other distributions.  This Live CD besides creating and 
> migrating virtual Linux installations to other machines can effectively 
> do back ups. In other words, this Live CD can be used to satisfy all my 
> project objectives in one form or another. I have the URLs and 
> instructions for the complete process (including customization) if 
> anyone else is interested in doing the same thing (Josephine?).  But 
> this email is specific to down loading the tar ball for Xen Live CD 
> contents.
> 
> Again I wish to aplogize if this request is inappropriate but I did want 
> to share what I have been doing with the list anyway in case others were 
> interested.
> 
> Thanks again -- TED
> .
> 
> 
> 
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Tim Deegan                           (My opinions, not the University's)
Systems Research Group
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory


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Re: Newbee - Xenoboot CD

[Ted Hilts]

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Tim

Thank you for the comment.  I created a high level brief (no details) 4 
point outline regarding what I think I have to do and would appreciate 
your comments.  

So I guess (based on what you said) I will have to:

1. Install a Linux distribution (how about SuSE 9.1 which has a 2.6.x kernel)?
2. Either (using the Xen source or an Xen binary) replace the SuSE 9.1 kernel
with Xen which I understand is built on (uses or is part of -- ported to) either
the 2.4.x and the2.6.x kernel)?
3. Then using Xen create a virtual machine into which I can "plant" SuSE 9.2 OS
or some other 2.6.x based Linux distribution or even BSD?
4. Then I can take the customized Xenoboot CD for that Xen installation and use it for
a permanent front end boot and recovery system and also a way to backup systems
as well as using one system as a template to create(clone) others or migrate a system
or even partitions. 


Tim Deegan wrote:

>Hi Ted,
>
>Just to be clear -- you know the Xenoboot CD doesn't have Xen on it,
>right?  It's just a piece of boot infrastructure we use for controlling
>test machines.
>
>There will be a Xen/Debian/BSD live CD available from the Xen project
>site within the next few days, which does boot to Xen (but doesn't do
>the boot infrastructure things that the Xenoboot does), or alternatively
>Jred Rhine has made a Xen/ttylinux boot CD which is much smaller and
>would be easier to download. ( http://software.wordzoo.com/xencd/ )
>
>Tim.
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