Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what are looking for ,minus the xen. 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.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Moskowitz</b> <<a href="mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com">rgm@htt-consult.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more<br>memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.<br><br>Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the<br>OS is XP).<br><br>The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB
2.0 ports so I was thinking.....<br><br>Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map<br><br>/etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive<br>(16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get
<br>an eval device :) ).<br><br>So first I would want a bootable DVD that would have everything I want<br>to have running on the cd2400. And of course, everytime one of the<br>components get updated, I will have to build a new DVD.
<br><br>Then I would like to run within XEN my company's XP image on that<br>encrypted drive. Is this possible. If I could do this, I can move the<br>nc2400 as my 'workhorse', downgrade my nc4010 to my test box, and
<br>reallocate the Toshiba 3490 to the family.... And more importantly one<br>less box to carry when traveling!<br><br>I guess one thing in this whole equation will I be able to repartition<br>the USB flash drive with a swap partition (will probably never use, as
<br>there is 1.5Gb memory in the nc2400. Twice as much as the nc4010), and<br>an ext3 data partition? Or should I use LVM on it?<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">
CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jason<br>Luck favors the prepared.