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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