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. On 1/5/08, Robert Moskowitz <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? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Jason Luck favors the prepared. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080105/204dcb82/attachment-0005.html>