[CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

[Robert Moskowitz]

Jason Clark wrote:
> Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what 
> are looking for ,minus the xen.
I am using DSL 4.2 on a Libretto, so I will first be testing booting the 
nc2400 off a DSL live CD.
> What I would propose though is to run vmware P2V (now called 
> converter) on your XP machine. It will export a vmware image of that 
> drive, then just format that sucker, install centos and vmware and run 
> your corp image inside of that. It's what I do at work and it has 
> always worked splendidly.
I CANNOT touch the drive.  I have to leave it and its encrypted XP 
alone.  In fact I think it will be rather hard to get the encyrption off 
the drive without blowing the MSB and partition tables.

And they force XP updates down to me that I have no choice to 'install 
later'.  Rather my only choice once they pop up on the box is when to 
reboot...

It would be nice, but question about how much work Live CD is.  Perhaps 
I should pull the current one down and boot it for kicks...

>
> On 1/5/08, *Robert Moskowitz* <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
>
>     My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400.  Much faster, more
>     memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.
>
>     Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the
>     OS is XP).
>
>     The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.....
>
>     Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map
>
>     /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive
>     (16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I
>     can get
>     an eval device :) ).
>
>     So first I would want a bootable DVD that would have everything I want
>     to have running on the cd2400.  And of course, everytime one of the
>     components get updated, I will have to build a new DVD.
>
>     Then I would like to run within XEN my company's XP image on that
>     encrypted drive.  Is this possible.  If I could do this, I can
>     move the
>     nc2400 as my 'workhorse', downgrade my nc4010 to my test box, and
>     reallocate the Toshiba 3490 to the family....  And more
>     importantly one
>     less box to carry when traveling!
>
>     I guess one thing in this whole equation will I be able to repartition
>     the USB flash drive with a swap partition (will probably never
>     use, as
>     there is 1.5Gb memory in the nc2400. Twice as much as the nc4010), and
>     an ext3 data partition?  Or should I use LVM on it?
>
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> Jason
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