From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:30:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909101230.29625.joost@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909101104.52565.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:04:52 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an
> > ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD.
> > I always do it with:
> > # cp /dev/cdrom <path-to>/bladiebla.iso
> > (change paths / names as appropriate)
> >
> > No need to install additional software to do this and I have succesfully
> > used this to create ISO images from MS Windows install media as well for
> > use with both VirtualBox and VMWare.
>
> This is indeed strange - to make an ISO of a CD-ROM and install from that.
> I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks to you and Walt.
This is an easy way to install software that, when unpacked, is larger then a
DVD, but don't want to copy it to the local drive every time.
I have a few ISO-images of around 14Gig with software on it. Just connect that
to the virtual machine and install from there. :)
--
Joost
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-05 17:21 [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization Nick Khamis
2009-09-05 19:01 ` Michael Higgins
2009-09-05 19:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-05 20:17 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-05 20:20 ` David Snider
2009-09-05 20:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-05 20:59 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-05 22:06 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-09-06 16:38 ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2009-09-06 16:50 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-06 17:14 ` walt
2009-09-06 22:32 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-09-07 9:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-07 21:29 ` walt
2009-09-08 15:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-08 17:56 ` walt
2009-09-09 12:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-10 1:31 ` walt
2009-09-10 10:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-10 12:37 ` walt
2009-09-10 8:45 ` J. Roeleveld
2009-09-10 10:04 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-09-10 10:30 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
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