I would like to build a server "offline" on an x86 machine I have at home, and upload it to a Linode. I think this should be possible.

This article was helpful:
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2709

but it was mainly about moving from one Linode to another.

Has anyone done this? What should I look out for? Is there an article or a Wiki entry about doing this?

Check out http://thegrebs.com/~michael/custom_howto/

It is basically a work in progress. Most of the documentation is in the screen shots but it should get you through.

can u explain the part where u remove all the tty's. what is the purpose of this, does it really make that much of a difference.

BTW, aren't the servers 64 bit capable?

You remove all other terminals and serial consoles (only the one implemented by Lish actually exists). If not - your logs fill up with crap as the agetty processes constantly respawn for missing physical devices.


Yes, but the kernels are compiled for i686.

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Some Xen hosts have 64bit kernels available

I have access to 64 bit kernels, but none of those are listed as 2.6.xx.x-domU.

One of my servers was having issues with time sync, the only thing that solved it for me was running the domU kernel. I guess this is a special kernel and certain options need to be enabled over the vanilla source?

Is it possible to get a 64 bit kernel with the same options enabled as the 2.6.18.8-domU-linode7 kernel? what exactly needs to be enabled?