I've built such a thing... 1) Install beta of VMWare. 2) Install base RHEL4 into a new VM. 3) Boot RHEL4 in single user mode in VMWare 4) tar -zcvf everything.tgz / 5) scp everything.tgz somewhere-else:/a-directory 6) create a blank rootfs volume 7) loop mount same 8) untar everything.tgz onto rootfs 9) boot your new rootfs with UML.
viola! Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant) Kernel 2.6.16.9-bs2 on an i686 vmdoj login: Note: there are still some hacks as per UMLwiki in various startup things. RHEL4 is running on my notebook under FC4-32 host. Cheers Phill. On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 16:49 -0700, Simon Matthews wrote: > Does anyone have any advice on how to build a root filesystem for > RedHat Enterprise 4? I have searched the documentation and all I see > are pointers to a number of root filesystem builders (none of which > seem to support RHEL4), not instructions on how to go about the > process. > > Regards, > Simon > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
