Linked by Rahul on Mon 27th Oct 2008 20:33 UTC
Lifehacker reviews some of the popular Linux distributions that have provided tools to make Live USB keys, a easy task. These include Damn Small Linux, Fedora with it's cross platform liveusb-creator , Puppy Linux and Xubuntu. All systems were tested with UNetbootin except for Fedora which was run using it's own liveusb-creator. For every distribution, the minimum requirements, image size, boot time, features, things that need improvement and which users it is recommended for, is listed.
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RE: Booting these in VMs?
by jimbofluffy on Tue 28th Oct 2008 13:26
in reply to "Booting these in VMs?"
Member since:2008-07-15
Has anyone had experience with these type of VMs booting into VMs? I really like the idea of having a few appliance style VMs I could boot into VMware or other environment that I could carry around on USB keys, etc.
Not exactly pertaining to your statement, but
DSL has version they call "embedded" that comes with Q that can either be usb booted or booted in windows.
rakamaka,
I and some of my colleagues use the dsl embedded when we need to ssh from a windows cluster when there is not a program installed on the cluster to do so, though of course there are other ways to do that.
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Has anyone had experience with these type of VMs booting into VMs? I really like the idea of having a few appliance style VMs I could boot into VMware or other environment that I could carry around on USB keys, etc.
I'd like to extend this to light weight servers that I can move around between cloud servers. Is anyone doing this?