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- Apr 26, 2012
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- New York, USA
Has anyone tried this? I would love to have a full blown graphic desktop (xfce or some other light weight window manager) that I can use for system restore/monitoring/stress testing that I can keep in my pocket.
I think I'm close, but I can't seem to get any distro to recognize my mouse (not surprising as it's hardly recognized as a mouse by my friends
), so this weekend I picked up a cheap Onn mouse from Walmart. I haven't had time to pull my system out and switch mice, but I think then I'll be able to complete it. Here's what I've done so far, in case anyone want's something similar:
1) I decided that I was going to use a distro called System Rescue CD, because it is lightweight, has both x86 and 64 bit kernels, and is already built for system maintenance.
2) I installed VMware Player.
3) I created a virtual machine that I called "install to usb", that had half of my system resources dedicated to it, and the minimum HDD capacity.
4) I set the ISO for System Rescue CD to be the boot CD on the VM.
5) I booted the system, connected my flash drive, set it to run strait to the graphic desktop on the 64 bit kernel and once it got there, typed in the terminal: "sysresccd-usbstick dialog". I clicked on my flash drive, and let it go. I did it that way because the entire flash drive (mine is 32GB) serves as persistant memory for the system.
That's as far as I got, because the system would hang at what I believe was USB detection on boot, which is why I bought a cheap mouse. Once I get into the system, I will install P95, as well as other programs for stress testing and system monitoring. If anyone here has a better idea, or has an idea of how to make it better, let me know. I hope that Wednesday or Thursday I can get this running.
I think I'm close, but I can't seem to get any distro to recognize my mouse (not surprising as it's hardly recognized as a mouse by my friends
), so this weekend I picked up a cheap Onn mouse from Walmart. I haven't had time to pull my system out and switch mice, but I think then I'll be able to complete it. Here's what I've done so far, in case anyone want's something similar:1) I decided that I was going to use a distro called System Rescue CD, because it is lightweight, has both x86 and 64 bit kernels, and is already built for system maintenance.
2) I installed VMware Player.
3) I created a virtual machine that I called "install to usb", that had half of my system resources dedicated to it, and the minimum HDD capacity.
4) I set the ISO for System Rescue CD to be the boot CD on the VM.
5) I booted the system, connected my flash drive, set it to run strait to the graphic desktop on the 64 bit kernel and once it got there, typed in the terminal: "sysresccd-usbstick dialog". I clicked on my flash drive, and let it go. I did it that way because the entire flash drive (mine is 32GB) serves as persistant memory for the system.
That's as far as I got, because the system would hang at what I believe was USB detection on boot, which is why I bought a cheap mouse. Once I get into the system, I will install P95, as well as other programs for stress testing and system monitoring. If anyone here has a better idea, or has an idea of how to make it better, let me know. I hope that Wednesday or Thursday I can get this running.
