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edoardo
March 6th, 2006, 03:24 PM
I'd like to be able to create my own ubuntu-based livecd image.
I would create one with vmware player installed.

As I start seeing bus-powered drives that approach 10GB (20GB?) that should be enough to store on a single usb drive

-the "livecd" bootable linux which includes vmware player
-the vm image with "my real" os (the guest, another instance of ubuntu ;-)!

this would still leave the option open to run the vm with a player installed on the pc
(i'd install the vm image on a fat32 partition),
but if that is not doable, I could boot from the usb drive and then run the vm from there.

has anyone done this yet ?
PS it's not new conceptually! google for 'soulpad'

edoardo
July 14th, 2006, 02:31 PM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1254925#post1254925