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Monday, 17. January 2005
Rolling TODO list
rsbohn
09:47h
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Your own private Idaho
rsbohn
09:32h
From hathawaymix.org: Your own Linux distribution. Great idea. I've been thinking about ways to virtualize the main computer at home. We have one computer that the family shares. I would like to have my own environment on there without worrying about what the others install. I would like to rebuild my environment without messing everyone else up. Because of all the games it will have to be Windows. And we haven't bought Sims 2 yet because I don't know if the system will take it, and what other programs it will mess up. We used to have boot floppies which you could customize for different games. Boot with this one to play game X, this one for game Y. There must be some way to do this with Windows. I would put the Sims 2 in it's own system. One solution would be to create disk images for each user or configuration, but we also need to boot quickly, we can't re-image the main drive each time someone logs in. It would be nice to use WINE to create a virtual windows installation. I guess this means individual windows directories and registries. I haven't been able to build WINE on windows at this point. I suppose I could run WINE on the server, but that's only 200 MHz, won't get much out of that. Another option is to net-boot a simple windows system from the server. I'll have to take another look at this. I suppose only the system drive would have to be on the network, you could store all the programs and data on a local disk without too much conflict. The great part of this would be that you could create a new boot image easily and then install whatever software you care about. As long as you can choose your boot image you should be able to boot quickly and maintain your changes on the server. This might even be compatible with the existing installation, just pre-boot using a ZIP cart, then load the running image via PXE. One key to this is setting the environment so that the default installation directory is not on the network drive. Use D:\program files instead of C:\program files. I'm still looking for a working solition to this problem. I'll probably be looking at a minimal net-bootable Windows system, see how far that takes me. I'll be trying the configuration from http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/7/071-diskless-windows-pxe.html ... Link |
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BiographyRandall Bohn lives in Orem, Utah, USA. He works as a Software Quality Engineer. He is a big fan of the AVR line of microcontrollers. He has been in the computer industry since 1989. Randall is married and has three children. rsbohn can be reached via gmail.com. status
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