[Users] Scientific Linux 5.7 OS Templates in contrib

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

As you my have noticed CentOS 5.7 and Scientific Linux 5.7 both came out today... as did updated official OS Templates from the OpenVZ project.  Thanks Kir!

I found a short recipe (http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=13&hl=bold) for converting a CentOS host to a Scientific Linux host and decided to give it a try.  It worked great.  I created a CentOS 5.6 container, followed the recipe and when I was done I had a Scientific Linux 5.7 container.  I had to add a couple of extra packages that aren't mentioned in the recipe and I was able to ignore those packages needed for a desktop system (mostly desktop logos and branding stuff).

The final products are a i386 and an x86_64 contributed SL 5.7 OS Template.  You can find them in the usual place (http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/contrib/):

scientific-5-i386-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz             14-Sep-2011 16:15  157M
scientific-5-i386-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz.asc         14-Sep-2011 16:15  198
scientific-5-x86_64-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz           14-Sep-2011 16:18  162M
scientific-5-x86_64-default-5.7-20110914.tar.gz.asc       14-Sep-2011 16:18  198

I hope to update my contributed Fedora, CentOS and SL 6 OS Templates soon too.

Enjoy,
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Scott Dowdle
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