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.

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