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authormwilli2@equilibrium.research <mwilli2@equilibrium.research>2004-11-04 08:52:34 +0000
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bitkeeper revision 1.1159.1.362 (4189edd2vSNHtUnxICi2Lvf6gbaa-w)
More prerequisites + some slightly saner instructions for setting up a root filesystem.
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@@ -206,16 +206,17 @@ distribution.
\begin{itemize}
\item A working Linux distribution using the GRUB bootloader and
running on a P6-class (or newer) CPU.
-\item An installation of Twisted v1.3 or above\footnote{{\tt
-http://www.twistedmatrix.com}}. There may be a binary package
-available for your distribution; alternatively it can be installed by
-running `{\sl make install-twisted}' in the root of the Xen source tree.
\item The Linux bridge control tools\footnote{{\tt
http://bridge.sourceforge.net}}.
\item Build tools (gcc v3.2.x or v3.3.x, binutils, GNU make).
\item Development installation of libcurl.
\item Development installation of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev).
\item Development installation of Python v2.2 or later (e.g., python-dev).
+\item An installation of Twisted v1.3 or above\footnote{{\tt
+http://www.twistedmatrix.com}}. There may be a binary package
+available for your distribution; alternatively it can be installed by
+running `{\sl make install-twisted}' in the root of the Xen source tree.
+\item \LaTeX, transfig and tgif are required to build the documentation.
\end{itemize}
\section{Download the Xen source code}
@@ -876,7 +877,8 @@ Make a file system in the disk file: \\
Populate the file system e.g. by copying from the current root:
\begin{verbatim}
# mount -o loop vm1disk /mnt
-# cp -ax / /mnt
+# cp -ax /{root,dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
+# mkdir /mnt/{proc,sys,home,tmp}
\end{verbatim}
Tailor the file system by editing \path{/etc/fstab},
\path{/etc/hostname}, etc (don't forget to edit the files in the