Installing Xen

[rodnower]

Hello, I have CentOS 5.4 installed.
Now I'm trying to install Xen with out connecting to Internet (I have any driver for modem, so I search on Inernet only from Windows).
All I have are 7 installation disks.
First I done was to find kind of some add/remove programs wizard but it needed connection to Inernet.
Second I try was to find Xen rpm on all disks and install it. But I fell on some dependency of some dependency.
Third I attempted was to boot from first disk and do upgrade, but also it was unsuccessfully...
So my question is: is there some way to install Xen from CentOS installation disks with out network?

Thank you for ahead.

[Rubberman]

Any particular reason why you need to install XEN? Why not KVM, which is part of the standard distribution and should also be installable from the CD/DVD set you have.

[rodnower]

So reason is that I need to get some expirience with Xen during my studies, but in any way I will glad to see how I can install KVM from those disks.

[Rubberman]

Xen is pretty much being deprecated in the Linux environment since it was bought out by Citrix a couple of years ago. It won't be available on Red Hat based systems after the current 5.4 as far as I know. Maybe it will be available on 5.5, but definitely not on 6.0 (currently in beta).

[Rubberman]

FWIW, I used it about 2 1/2 years ago when I first built my current workstation/server, but I dropped it in favor of VirtualBox when I found that I could not install the nVidia proprietary drivers with the Xen kernel, which pretty much fubar'd any high-performance graphics that I needed to run. Also, without those drivers I couldn't use my 2 24" flat panel monitors or get use of the full 1920x1200 resolution they are capable of. So, two months after I installed the system, I stopped using the xen kernel, and then uninstalled it altogether.

[rodnower]

I found way how to connect to repository on disks (you need to enable only media repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, but when I try to install xen I get error that begins with:
-----------------------------------
xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5.x86_64:
failure: CentOS/xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5.x86_64.rpm from c5-media:
[Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
libvirt-0.6.3-20.el5.i386:
failure: CentOS
-----------------------------------
at the end of the process. I tried to insert three first disks, and I beleave that the same error will with other four.

Any one know how may I install Xen or something else from dsks?

[Rubberman]

As I recall, when I originally installed CentOS, Xen was an installation option. Of course, that was 2 1/2 years ago, so I may be misremembering... Have you tried to reinstall CentOS from scratch to see if that is the case? A more simple issue is to get the xen kernel rpm from a CentOS mirror and install that manually with Yum. I just looked and it is there for the latest kernel (2.6.18-164).

[rodnower]

I thing that reinstall OS is the worst case and I will try to install Xen from rpm, but in any caes I need to know how to install things from discs. So if some one may to help me, this is /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-media.repo:
[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo all enabled = 0

This is content of /media/CentOS_5.4_Final:
total 178
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 102400 Oct 1 2009 CentOS
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 212 Oct 1 2009 EULA
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 18009 Oct 1 2009 GPL
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Oct 1 2009 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Oct 1 2009 isolinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Oct 1 2009 NOTES
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 655 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-cs
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1401 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-cs.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 839 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-de
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1571 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-de.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 694 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-en
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1367 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 694 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1367 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 788 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-es
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1619 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-es.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 852 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-fr
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1641 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-fr.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 766 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-ja
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1565 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-ja.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 706 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-nl
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1433 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-nl.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 752 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-pt_BR
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1480 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-pt_BR.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 801 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-ro
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1473 Oct 1 2009 RELEASE-NOTES-ro.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Oct 1 2009 repodata
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1512 Oct 1 2009 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1504 Oct 1 2009 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7048 Oct 1 2009 TRANS.TBL

This is content of /media/CentOS_5.4_Final/repodata:

total 32328
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 941644 Oct 1 2009 comps.xml
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 4116331 Oct 1 2009 filelists.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3478717 Oct 1 2009 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 10443591 Oct 1 2009 other.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10845962 Oct 1 2009 other.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 2141520 Oct 1 2009 primary.sqlite.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1130874 Oct 1 2009 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1296 Oct 1 2009 repomd.xml
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1811 Oct 1 2009 TRANS.TBL

Content of /media/CentOS_5.4_Final/CentOS is too large so I put it here:
h t t p : / / w w w .4shared.com/document/d0DciW69/media--CentOS_54_Final--CentOS.html
Im very sorry for 10 second that you need to wait...

Now, I'm do and see the following:
Package Manager -> Brows -> Virtualization -> Apply -> Package Selection -> Details:
Installing:
gnome-applet-vm-0.1.2-1.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.el5
libvirt-0.6.3-20.el5
libvirt-0.6.3-20.el5
virt-manager-0.6.1-8.el5
virt-viewer-0.0.2-3.el5
xen-3.0.3-94.el5

-> Continue -> Resolving -> Dependencies added -> Details:
Adding for dependencies:
bridge-utils-1.1-2
celt051-0.5.1.3-0.el5
gnome-python2-gnomekeyring-2.16.0-3.el5
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.871-0.10.el5
kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5
libvirt-python-0.6.3-20.el5
log4cpp-1.0-4.el5
python-virtinst-0.400.3-5.el5
qcairo-1.8.7.1-3.el5
qffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.15.20080908.el5
qpixman-0.13.3-4.el5
qspice-libs-0.3.0-39.el5
xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5
xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5

-> Continue -> Error downloading packages -> Details:
The error also is too large so I put it here:
h t t p : / / w w w .4shared.com/document/T3gOtoKG/Error.html
Again sorry for waiting.

Do you have to say something about that? Thank you for ahead.

[rodnower]

I get it!
For get this working I coppied all rpm's from all 7 discs to /repository/CentOS that I was created before that, I summed all contents of TRANS.TBL files from all discs in CentOS directory to one file and saved it in /repository/CentOS/TRANS.TBL, after this I put the importest directory named repodata from first disc (/media/CentOS_5.4_Final/repodata) to /repository/repodata
After that I coppied CentOS-Media.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d to, for instance: CentOS-Local.repo and set baseurl to: baseurl=file:///repository/
Only to /repository/ not to /repository/CentOS/ or /repository/repodata
The last thing was to disable all other repositories like it was described here before.
This is the only way to get it working I thing, because when yum not find some dependency on current cd disc, it throw error instead of require following disc.