unfrozen repo somewhere?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Sep 29 22:23:38 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
>>
>>> So far I haven't seen anything in release notes that looks anywhere 
>>> near as convenient as downloading a ready to run vmware image.  The 
>>> process to create a bootable USB looks like it requires a 
>>> already-installed system, and I don't see any estimate of the disk 
>>> space and time it will waste to do the 'install to hard drive' in a 
>>> VM to get a writable system.   I've also always had to track down 
>>> hacks to make vmware tools work when I wanted to run fedora under 
>>> vmware - is that still a problem?
>>
>> With qemu/qemu-kvm, you can download and run the LiveCD ISO image with
>> "-cdrom /path/to/image.iso -boot d".  If vmware makes it harder than
>> that, then I'd say you should give an Open Source virtualization tool a
>> try.
> 
> It's easy enough to boot an iso or iso image file.  But that won't be 
> writable.

It would be if you make it a Live USB.

http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

Rahul




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