CRUX Linux in the Cloud (AWS EC2)

This is how I did it.

• Install CRUX Linux on disk image (8GB)
• Install ec2-get-ssh into /etc/rc.d
• Edit /etc/rc.conf and enable sshd and ec2-get-ssh
• Make sure curl is installed, ec2-get-ssh depends on it
• Edit /etc/fstab and make the root filesystem

$ /dev/xvda1mkdir -p /boot/grub
$ cd /boot/grub

• Create a menu.lst with the following

default=0
fallback=1
timeout=1
hiddenmenu
 
title CRUX
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/xvda1 console=hvc0

Convert the image to RAW format using VBoxManage

$ VBoxManage clonehd CRUX.vdi CRUX.img --format RAW

Start a server, mount an appropriately sized volume

$ dd bs=1M of=/dev/xvf

• umount the volume
• take a snapshot of the volume
• register the snapshot as an image

NOTE: You will need to mount the image as /dev/sda *NOT* /dev/sda1 as the drive is partitioned due to the conversion from a VirtualBox image

• Boot the image with a pv-grub You need to use a pv-grub-hd00_1.04-x86_64.gz kernel image. This image will support the compressed kernel, the location of the menu.lst and the partitioned drive image.
• Install the ec2-get-ssh script in /etc/rc.d
• Edit /etc/rc.conf to startup ec2-get-ssh on boot
• Disable password for root login

$ vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin without-password
$ /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

Kernel Options (3.12.24)

General Setup ---> 
  <*> Kernel .config support
  [*] Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gzProcessor type and features --->
  [*] Linux guest support --->
  [*] Enable paravirtualization code
  [*] Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks
  [*] Xen guest support
  [*] Paravirtual steam time accountingBus options (PCI etc.) --->
  [*] Xen PCI Frontend
   
Device Drivers --->
  Generic Driver Options --->
   -*- Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev
   [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs
   [*] Block devices (NEW) --->
   <*> Xen virtual block device support
   [*] Network device support --->
   <*> Xen network device frontend driver