From: Georges Toth (georges_at_norm.lu)
Date: Wed 23 Oct 2002 - 15:14:12 BST
> I tried using newvserver - installing from rh73m - but it failed
> miserably - a lot of garbage output, and it created the directory, the
> /dev and the conf-files - but installed no packages. although I have rpm
> installed on the gentoo system.
uhm, i've never used newserver command ;-).
i always create my vservers manually (check the documentation for
instructions)
> How did you go about getting a vserver created? I need i586 packages for
> my C3 system, otherwise I would gladly accept yours :-)
see above..
i thought the C3 was i686 ???
> I have copied a Redhat 7.2 install (vserver) from an old RH73 server,
> but for some reason it says illegal instruction, when I try to enter the
> server directory with chroot. I have another thread running on this
> though, but do tell if you have any ideas as what could be the reason.
> What's different when chroot'ing from a Gentoo-1.4rc1 into a RedHat 73?
i don't know if you can have a different distro in the vserver as on the host
?
> I have a RedHat 7.3 system installed on another partition, and I have no
> problems chroot'ing into that. it works like a charm, so I don't know
> what could be wrong.
it might be that you want to use a rh vserver on a gentoo host ?
> > on gentoo everything works fine now (except a php library ->
> > xmlrpc-epi, which > apparently isn't possible to compile with a gcc3.2
> > compiler)
>
> I haven't found that php-library in the ebuild collection. Is there an
> ebuild for it?
no, there isn't.
you can find it at: http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net/
-- regards, Georges Toth