[This is the final article in a three part series. Read part 1 and part 2.]
In this part I was going to discuss the different installation options, and I’ll give a quick introduction to each at the end. But you know? What I really need is this tool:
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In part 1 I discussed how these days Linux Live CDs usually come with a prebuilt disk image of the distro which is simply copied over to the hard disk during installation. (The “old” method was to rpm/dpkg-install the packages which is much more time-consuming). However my first test wasn’t very successful because [...]
Previously I took a look at unpacking Fedora and Ubuntu live CDs to find out what’s inside them and to ask the question can we use the prebuilt filesystem image that these live CDs contain to quickly create a Fedora or Ubuntu “all-defaults” virtual machine?
This is my first attempt, and it’s not successful, but it [...]
Previously I’ve shown you can use guestfish to unpack a Fedora live CD.
I’m interested in whether we can use the contents of these live CDs to mass-install operating systems using libguestfs.
If you imagine that you go through an “all defaults” install of say Fedora or Ubuntu to a new virtual machine, then when you end [...]
(P2V = physical to virtual, taking a physical machine and converting it into a virtual machine)
What happens when you have an old server sitting in the corner — the hardware is flaky and you need to set up a virtual equivalent ASAP, but no one can remember how that old server is configured? People [...]
Fedora 11 live CDs are like Russian Matryoshka dolls – a filesystem within a filesystem within a filesystem.
On the outside they have to be in the standard CD ISO format because that’s what CDs require. However the CD ISO format is pretty useless, slow, limited filename length, and no support for SELinux labelling. [...]
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