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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 | + | 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: | + | At a CentOS 6 host as root do:<br/> |
| − | + | <code> | |
| − | + | yum install yum-utils<br/> | |
| − | + | yumdownloader centos-release.x86_64<br/> | |
| − | + | mkdir -p /newroot/var/lib/<br/> | |
| − | + | touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail <br/> | |
| − | + | rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot<br/> | |
| − | + | rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm<br/> | |
| − | + | yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd<br/> | |
| − | + | yum --installroot=/newroot clean all<br/> | |
| − | + | ln -s /proc/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab<br/> | |
| − | + | rm -f /newroot/dev/null<br/> | |
| − | + | mknod -m 600 /newroot/dev/console c 5 1 | |
| + | </code> | ||
| + | <br/> | ||
Create /newroot/etc/fstab that looks like this: | Create /newroot/etc/fstab that looks like this: | ||
| − | + | none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 | |
| − | + | none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 | |
Edit /newroot/etc/sysconfig/init | Edit /newroot/etc/sysconfig/init | ||
Change the line | Change the line | ||
| − | + | ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6] | |
to | to | ||
| − | + | ACTIVE_CONSOLES= | |
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| + | Change timezone (if needed)<br /> | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | rm /newroot/etc/localtime <br /> | ||
| + | ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Your/Timezone /newroot/etc/localtime | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | <br /> | ||
The only thing missing is to create a tarball of our new root. | The only thing missing is to create a tarball of our new root. | ||
| − | + | <code>tar zcf /vz/template/cache/centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz -C /newroot .</code> | |
You probably want to get rid of /newroot<br /> | You probably want to get rid of /newroot<br /> | ||
| − | + | <code> | |
| − | + | rm -rf /newroot | |
| − | + | </code> | |