[wplug] Live linux distro question

Chris Romano romano.chris at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 19:33:04 EDT 2010


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Gary P <gpitman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Are there any LiveCDs or anything that you don't have to reboot to
>>> run?  I guess it would be like running a virtualized installation with
>>> having to install any kind of vm player?  Could something like this be
>>> done with any of the virtualization software that's out there?
>>
>> You can certainly run a live cd via virtualization software such as
>> VirtualBox or KVM.
>>
>> In that case, it will run in a virtual machine on top of your existing
>> operating system.  But you'll certainly be able to play with it.
> Sounds like you need a simulator/emulator application. Have looked into installing cygwin on a thumb drive?
> I haven't
>

No I haven't.  I will have to look into it as I'm not that familiar
with it.  So would I use it to fire up the install or use it instead
of using a liveCD or liveUSB


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