Subject: Re: [vserver] webfrontend (was Re: [vserver] Roadmap and Future ...)
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:35:22 +0100

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:45:39PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
> Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> >If they can do that, then following:
> >    http://linux-vserver.org/Building_Guest_Systems
> >and copying the commands
> >    vserver vserver1 build -m debootstrap --context 42  --hostname 
> >vserver1.mydomain.com  --interface eth0:192.168.1.10/24  -- -d lenny 
> >-m http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
> >is not hard.

> Just to check that you are ok out of your comfort zone - could you 
> please give me the equivalent command and subsequent finishing steps 
> assuming you are running gentoo?

when running gentoo on the host (and not using vserver-debiantools)
then the line should be exactly the same, which is another
reason to avoid using distro specific wrappers

best,
Herbert

> (Hint - I know the answer, just want to check you can figure it out)
> 
> The point is that it's easy when you are familiar with something, but 
> even I think that line above looks damn imposing!!  Once I figured out 
> my own equiv for my gentoo builds I had to stick it in a little script 
> because there was no way I was going to get it right next time otherwise!
> 
> Ed W