1 Jun 2011 11:07
Slackware64 13.37 EC2/AWS AMI
Darren Austin <lists <at> afterdark.org.uk>
2011-06-01 09:07:38 GMT
2011-06-01 09:07:38 GMT
Hi all, As part of my new job we've been rolling out Slackware based AMIs into Amazon EC2 for our servers. As a result, i've made some effort to produce a couple of "public" AMIs of Slackware64 13.37, in case anyone was interested in running them on EC2. There are currently two AMIs in different regions: us-east-1: ami-74eb121d slackware-us-amis/Slackware64-13.37-PVGrub-USeast1-Public-2/Slackware64-13.37-PVGrub-USeast1-Public-2.manifest.xml eu-west-1: ami-eaae989e slackware-eu-amis/Slackware64-13.37-PVGrub-EUwest1-Public-2/Slackware64-13.37-PVGrub-EUwest1-Public-2.manifest.xml These AMIs are Slackware64 13.37, (mostly) full install of package sets: a ap d e l n tcl y. A few packages have been left out since they are useless on EC2 (lilo for example), but on the whole it should be a near complete "server" type install of Slackware. I've compiled a Xen kernel for the AMI - it's the same version as the one from 13.37, but i've modularised all stuff which is not directly required to get the imstance up and running. The boot uses Amazon's PVGrub set up, so the kernel can be updated within the image or the boot params changed. PVGrub accesses /boot/grub/menu.lst in the image to get the kernel and params to boot with, so you should look there if you want to update things. Let me know if there are any problems, requests, issues etc or if you want some more into about using the AMIs. Hope some of you find them useful :)(Continue reading)
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