Xen Shell "disks" command, CentOS installer (Was: Re: [bitfolk] To partition or not - ease of install vs. ease of resize)

Hello, On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:30:39PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: [...] To make this transition less painful I have added a "disks" command to the Xen Shell. As described here: https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/51 it will enable you to divide your allocated disk space between as many disk devices as you like. It will also allow you to reset your exported disks to conform to the standard described above, without you having to ask support to do it for you. You don't need to do that until/unless you want to reinstall your VPS of course, but most of you will need to do it if you do want to use one of the installers. I've also added the CentOS 5.x installer, so now the available installers are: Debian - lenny (5.x) - squeeze (6.x) Ubuntu - Lucid (10.04.x LTS) Centos - 5.x Gentoo doesn't have an installer as such, but installing Gentoo from an existing Linux installation is a fairly normal way to do it, do that can be done from the rescue environment: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 Now that these installers are available we aren't going to be doing any reimaging for customers anymore, as long as you're wanting a distribution that actually has an installer. Supported distributions that don't currently have an installer: - Debian sid - Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) They will be added at a later date. Naturally if you have any problems using any of this please do open a support ticket. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "Xandros's low-level support for the Eee mostly seemed to consist of a pile of shell scripts made of cheese and failure." -- Matthew Garrett