Installation guide

Managing EZ Templates

4 Inside Container 111, create a directory where the RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

4 will be stored:

# mkdir -p /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/as4/i386/os/ \

RedHat/RPMS

5 Copy the RPM packages from the RHEL 4 distribution disks to the

/vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/as4/i386/os/RedHat/RPMS

directory by executing the following command for each of the RHEL 4 CDs:

# cp /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS*.rpm /vz/root/111/var/www/html/ \

download/redhat/as4/i386/os/RedHat/RPMS

6 Install the createrepo package on the Hardware Node, for example:

# rpm -Uhv createrepo-0.4.3-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

Preparing... #################################### [100%]

1:createrepo #################################### [100%]

7 Create the metadata repository for the RHEL 4 packages with the createrepo utility:

# createrepo /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/as4/ \

i386/os/RedHat/RPMS

Creating the RPM metadata repository may take some time depending on the speed of your

processors and hard disk drive.

8 Create a directory for keeping mirror site lists. In our case, mirror site lists will be stored in the

/vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors directory on the Node:

# mkdir -p /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors

9 Create the /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/redhat-as4 mirror list

file and make it point to the repository inside Container 111 where RPM packages for RHEL 4

are stored:

# echo "http://144.134.134.144/download/redhat/as4/i386/os/RedHat/ \

RPMS/" > /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/redhat-as4

This command makes the

/vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/mirrors/redhat-as4 file on the Node and

adds the

http://144.134.134.144/download/redhat/as4/i386/os/RedHat/RPMS string to

the file.

So, we have just created a repository for your RHEL 4 OS EZ template. Now you can cache the

redhat-as4-x86 EZ template and start creating Containers on its basis. However, if you wish to

receive package updates from the RHEL 4 website, you should additionally perform the following

steps:

1 On the Node, run the up2date utility and register your up2date account with RHEL 4. Please

consult the up2date documentation to complete this task.

Note: If your Node has another Linux OS installed on it (e.g., Fedora 16), you need to create a special

Container which is to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and register the up2date account from inside this

Container.

2 Inside Container 111, create a directory where the updated versions of the RHEL 4 packages

will be stored:

# mkdir -p /vz/root/111/var/www/html/download/redhat/updates/as4/i386