[Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex

[M A Young]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote:

> Thanks to all who offered responses.  I tried this again, using an LVM volume 
> instead of a file-backed disk.  It still hangs again at the exact same spot. 
> Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2, 
> etc.  The VM manager shows it is still running, and using about 12.5% of my 
> CPU (although it fluctuates a bit).  The machine also still responds to 
> pings.

Why don't you install it without the Office packages an add them back in 
post-install?

As to the problems you are seeing, how much memory does your VM 
machine have? I remember running into problems doing an upgrade on a low 
memory system, I think via http, where it ended up continually swapping, 
having downloaded the big openoffice.org-core package to ramdisk and then 
was trying to install it (this was non-xen and a few Fedoras ago).

Incidentally I installed Fedora 9 on Centos 5 earlier today so it is 
certainly possible (unlike Fedora 10 on Centos 5).

 	Michael Young