Creating a CentOS 6 Template - Revision history

ChristerSolskogen at 09:36, 25 November 2014

2014-11-25T09:36:02Z

2014-10-15T20:20:03Z

update to centos 6.5

2013-08-29T18:01:14Z

update for centos 6.4

2012-10-24T18:13:02Z

2012-10-24T12:34:04Z

formating

2012-10-24T12:33:21Z

2012-10-24T12:30:54Z

2012-10-24T12:29:19Z

I forgot the timezone stuff

2012-10-23T20:52:28Z

2012-10-23T20:16:31Z

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   rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot
   rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-5.el6.centos.11.2.x86_64.rpm
-  yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd
+  yum --installroot=/newroot install -y rootfiles openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd
   yum --installroot=/newroot clean all
   ln -s /proc/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab

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   yum install yum-utils
-  yumdownloader centos-release.x86_64
+  yumdownloader centos-release
   mkdir -p /newroot/var/lib
   touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail
   rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot
-  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64.rpm
+  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-5.el6.centos.11.2.x86_64.rpm
   yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd
   yum --installroot=/newroot clean all

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   touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail
   rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot
-  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm
+  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64.rpm
   yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd
   yum --installroot=/newroot clean all

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 [[Category: Templates]]
-This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.
+This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or even use an already existing CentOS 6 container.
 At a CentOS 6 host as root do:

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 This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.
-At a CentOS 6 host as root do:<br/>
+At a CentOS 6 host as root do:
-  yum install yum-utils<br/>
+  yum install yum-utils
-  yumdownloader centos-release.x86_64<br/>
+  yumdownloader centos-release.x86_64
-  mkdir -p /newroot/var/lib/<br/>
+  mkdir -p /newroot/var/lib
-  touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail <br/>
+  touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail
-  rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot<br/>
+  rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot
-  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm<br/>
+  rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm
-  yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd<br/>
+  yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd
-  yum --installroot=/newroot clean all<br/>
+  yum --installroot=/newroot clean all
-  ln -s /proc/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab<br/>
+  ln -s /proc/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab
-  rm -f /newroot/dev/null<br/>
+  rm -f /newroot/dev/null
   mknod -m 600 /newroot/dev/console c 5 1
 Create /newroot/etc/fstab that looks like this:
   none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0

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    ACTIVE_CONSOLES=
-Change timezone (if needed)
+Change timezone (if needed)<br />
-rm /newroot/etc/localtime
+<code>
 ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Your/Timezone /newroot/etc/localtime
-<code>tar zcf /vz/template/cache/centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz -C /newroot .</code>
+You probably want to get rid of /newroot<br />

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:52, 23 October 2012
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		+	[[Category: HOWTO]]
		+	[[Category: Templates]]
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	This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.		This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:16, 23 October 2012
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−	This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 ~~(Having 5 might also work)~~ - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.	+	This guide requires that you already have a CentOS 6 - If you do not have CentOS 6 installed, do it in KVM or VirtualBox or whatever you want.

	At a CentOS 6 host as root do:<br/>		At a CentOS 6 host as root do:<br/>