On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Frank Hale wrote:
>Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:43:11 -0400
>From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: anaconda's code
>
>> If you're planning on making a distribution based on Red Hat, two
>> things will simplify your life greatly.
>>
>> 1) VMware
>> 2) CDRW media instead of CDR media. No coasters.
>>
>> Hope this helps you out.
>
>Thank you, I promptly downloaded VMware evaluation, dug out my CDRW's
>which had been collecting dust (I thought they were a windows only
>thing). Erase one of them, burned my custom dist onto it and loaded in
>up in VMware. Really cool!!! This is the coolest thing since sliced
>bread.
;o)
VMware has been around for at least 18 months.. Where have ya
been? Hehehehe.
The thing that isn't terribly well supported in Linux with
respect to CDRW is the UDF filesystem used by Adaptec
DirectCD. You can't use CDRW disks like large floppies in Linux
yet. That is coming, but it has been a LONG while in the
making. Kernel 2.4.0 will include preliminary UDF support, but
I'm not counting on it being to solid just yet since not many
people use it out there (read/write).
Using CDRW like CDR's though works fine as long as your writer
and reader support CDRW disks.
>Now if I can only get it VMware to boot from an iso image (make
>it think its a cd) that way I won't have to burn a CDRW
>everytime. Then that will be cool!!
Mount the iso image on a mount point, export it as NFS, and do an
NFS install - or do a similar FTP install. It should work just
fine. You won't be able to test the CD boot feature, but hey,
you only need to test that once right? ;o)
TTYL
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