How to run Gentoo?

[Mireno]

Hi,

I'm sorry if you are not able to answer my question - but I have heard that you can run gentoo on your VPS accounts here. I have a VPS and my host uses Xen, so I think that hopefully you would be able to shed light on my problem. Again, I am not a customer here but simply wondering how you can get Gentoo working on a VPS.

I tried installing Gentoo on my VPS several times now, each time getting errors accessing to write areas of /proc and losing all functionality after a reboot. What changes does one make to gentoo standard stage3 install on an x86 to make sure that when you reboot, the proper kernel is booted up and SSH starts successfully?

My kernel is 2.6.10-xenU and the VPS host do not allow boot loaders.

Thank you,
Mireno

Edit: Could an admin please reply to this? :)

[limey]

Hi there, I'm not an admin, but I can tell you what little I do know, and hope that it helps you in your quest for knowledge :D

The VPSs here are ran through The XEN Virtual Machine Monitor (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html), and currently the following operating systems are available to install automatically via the virtual machine control panel.

Debian 3.0
Debian 3.1
Debian Testing
Debian Unstable
Gentoo 2004.3
Gentoo 2005.0
Fedora Core 3
CentOS 3.4
CentOS 4.0
Mandrake 10.1
Slackware 10.1
Ubuntu

Chris

[Mireno]

Sorry, that is not what I meant.

I meant how would you change a default stage3 install of Gentoo to make it compatible with Xen. I tried just overwriting the current (Debian) installation with the files, but that caused massive incompatibilities.