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| < MOA 2.4 ~ Suggestion for a large hi-end stick or usb-disk. |
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Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:44 pm
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mad scientist
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 2451
Location: Winterberg - Sauerland
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Suggestion for a large hi-end stick or usb-disk.
My favorites are USB-disks because they are much faster than sticks but this stick here is a nice alternative
This is just a makeshift boot-menu - I am still experimenting with an ESXi option - nothing serious yet ...
That is my current boot-disk - a 32 Gb SSD-stick. This device is detected as a fixed disk so it can be partitioned.
Partition 1 is formatted with FAT32 - bootloader GRUB4DOS in installed
Partition 2 is formatted with NTFS - used with "moa-is-at-home.tag"
Partition 3 is formatted with ext2 and will be used by Slax.
Partition 4 is formatted as swap and so can be used by Slax for swapping.
Slax is loaded from Grub4Dos which is installed in the first partition of the disk.
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## Menu for Grub4Dos
timeout 10
default 0
splashimage = /grub4dos/bluefractal.xpm.gz
foreground = white
background = light-gray
title moa
find --set-root /ntldr
chainloader /ntldr
title Slax with workstation
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 changes=slaxchanges
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
title BackTrack
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=normal max_loop=255 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=8888 root=/dev/ram0 rw
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
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get SLAX
http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php?download=iso
http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php?download=tar
The 3rd partition is populated like this
I used a regular Slax-USB-609 build and added this modules
slax.cfg looks like this:
add VMFS-driver
make sure you add a Java-runtime module like this one for jre-6u13.lzm
Next you need the fvmfs-driver - check here for the latest version:
http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/
add VMware Workstation
before you try this make sure that your Slax really uses the configured directory for changes - to test simply change desktop-wallpaper and reboot.
Next download
VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle from here
Run
sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.2-156735.i386.bundle
and follow defaults.
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Last edited by continuum on Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:25 pm; edited 4 times in total |
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Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:50 pm
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Joined: 04 Feb 2009
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Location: Toronto/Montreal, Canada
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| cool do you need power for the esata? |
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Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:36 pm
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mad scientist
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 2451
Location: Winterberg - Sauerland
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yes - it needs the USB-plugged in as well. Can't test that as I don't have eSATA  |
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