On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:13:41AM -0700, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20011212100218.B504@crb-web.com>, Wayne Cuddy writes:
> >On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:37:06AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:36:09PM -0500, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> >> > That's assuming that VMware uses a raw image of the drive.  Does it?  Hey-
> >-
> >> > I could use a read-only \windoze, and export \"Program Files" with samba.
> >> > Boy, would _that_ be ugly.
> >> 
> >> (Or, for that matter, VMWare knows how to speak ISO/ffs/ext2fs-in-a-
> >> file and I've just never tried.)
> >
> >VMWare does know how to speak ISO9660 in a file.  It came in very handy when
> >developing a custom Linux install disk.
> >	
> >	1) develop the software for the ISO file system
> >	2) use mkisofs to create a ISO image file
> >	3) tell vmware to use that as the CDROM drive
> >
> >I didn't make one coaster!!  Very painless..
> >
> 
> What version of vmware was that?  I tried and failed with that approach,
> apparently because of some ioctls.
>

3.0, that is why I posted to the list a few weeks ago querying if 3.0 worked
under NetBSD 1.5.2 or not, I never got an answer:(

Also, this work was done under Linux, not NetBSD, don't know if that makes a
difference.

Wayne