[Quantian-general] Re: Quantian in VMware Player with disk access

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 January 2006 at 21:45, Gary wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >|    It should thus be possible to create a suitable disk file of, say, ten
| >|    or so gigabytes (given that Quantian expands to around seven gigs),
| >|    create a filesystem and then run knx2hd to install Quantian onto the
| >|    new virtual disk, make the disk bootable and, presto!, have a virtual
| >|    instance of Quantian on stateful read/write media. While my tests have
| >  
| >
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| Does that mean an Quantian installation in which applications can be  
| installed and upgraded?

Yes, it should! But nobody has tried it yet, as far as I know...  

And just like any other 'to hard disk' installation of Quantian, you should

-- have stateful operations, ie config settings are easy to make (but recall
   that this also be made to work using, say, usb sticks with the iso boots)

-- be able to alter the installtion: programs can be added, removed, upgraded
   (caution here as it isn't perfectly how to upgrade a Quantian system as
   Knoppix-based systems are 100% like Debian, esp in their autoconfiguration
   and bootup scripts)

Moreover, because this would used in the context of the virtualization with
VMware Player, you'd also

-- get to run this alongside your normal operating system, so you could have
   Windows and Quantian, or Linux and Quantian, running at the same time!

-- get to suspend and restart instantaneously etc pp

Potentially all very, very useful!  

Cheers, Dirk

| >|    been limited to using a Linux host, this procedure should work just
| >|    the same way in Windows.

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