The Combat Pretzel » fedora http://www.combatpretzel.com Tom Servo's Online Craphole! Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha en hourly 1 Fedora 9 on BrandZ http://www.combatpretzel.com/2008/10/fedora-9-on-brandz/ http://www.combatpretzel.com/2008/10/fedora-9-on-brandz/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:02:39 +0000 tomservo http://www.combatpretzel.com/?p=36 If you’re in need of Linux emulation for whatever reason under Solaris, you’ve an existing mechanism at hand called BrandZ. The seemingly supported distros however are CentOS 3/4 and 5. Kind of antique. Stuff like Ubuntu or various other distros don’t seem to work. However if you really need an updated userland, try Fedora 9.

You go about following the usual Linux 2.6 brand install procedure, but instead feed this image to the zone installer:

http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/contrib/fedora-9-i386-default.tar.gz (courtesy of OpenVZ)

Logging into the zone console will not work. The zone will get stuck booting. Logging into a virtual terminal however does work (i.e. zlogin -l root zone). From there, create a new regular user and then go about installing all various sorts of things using yum. The image above is a minimal one. Be sure to create /etc/resolv.conf and fill some actual nameservers in there.

Update: Proof, pudding and all that shit…

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