I came across http://howtoforge.com/debian_etch_openvz And I am just wondering: 1) Is it mandatory to setup RAID? 2) What are the specific reasons to remove directories and links? With they conflict with openVZ in debian etch? I meant to point to the first steps like follows: cd / rm cdrom unlink vmlinuz.old unlink vmlinuz rmdir selinux/ rmdir initrd unlink initrd.img.old rmdir opt rmdir srv/ Thanks for the clarifications.
Nope, it adds data security if one disk should fail. You will keep a running system and thus time to replace the defect disk. Very practical on production systems. If you're on a test system, go ahead and skip RAID. Sorry, can't help you with this.
The guest system doesn't have a CD drive, uses the same kernel as the host system, etc. That's why these items get removed in the guest system.
Thanks. I followed the tutorial in this site without the --initrd flag at the end while creating the kernel image and it failed. However, I created one with the --initrd flag, but I landed at the same situation as at this thread: http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=7741&&srch=debian+etch#msg_7741 I could not see any pointers at all. Any suggestions?
I don't see a command with --initrd on http://howtoforge.com/debian_etch_openvz Where did you take that command from?
