Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x583fa100.hantslug.org.uk.28480': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Wed Mar 19 20:48:19 2008 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 019AD0D8166C4BF0
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2008, john lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:59:19 +0000
>
> Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> > I found using physical media a pain and I convert phyiscal media
> > into iso files, or simply use a downloaded iso file directly
> > without bothering to burn it to CD. It has the twin advantage of
> > being both a lot faster and more reliable than read CD/DVDs. Both
> > VirtualBox and Qemu are happy to mount iso files as CD/DVDs.
>
> trouble is you can't easily get hold of xp.iso or vista.iso


I suspect much to Microsoft's annoyance you probably can...

ISO files are easy enough to make if you have a CD/DVD, it's just an
appropriate use of dd.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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