unfrozen repo somewhere?

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> Wrong and wrong.  When using a USB key (which you can also do via virt
> systems) you can in fact update software, save files/settings.  The
> thing you can't do at this point is update the kernel.

Is the procedure for this documented somewhere?  I didn't think the free 
vmware products would boot a usb image - but haven't tried it either.

>>   All of those are good reasons not to bother. 
> 
> Not to bother looking at what features it has also, obviously.

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?

>> I suppose you could run a CD live image inside of a bare VMware instance 
>> but you'd take a double hit or worse on performance plus wasting the 
>> time and plastic to burn the image.
> 
> How is it a double hit, especially if you're booting from the iso image
> rather than a burned media?

Isn't there an extra layer of filesystem compression happening to access 
the iso files?  And on a real CD you have the slow seek time too.

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