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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: VMware2 and CDROM image
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To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
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Igor Sysoev writes:
| I have a patch that allow to use CD-ROM images in VMware2 via vn device:
| http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.vn_cd.txt
| 
| Patch was made and tested on FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3.
| I had used it to install Windows NT 4.0 from CD-ROM image in VMware2.
| It can be used on FreeBSD 4.x only (because it's using vn device).
| 
| Russian description is available here:
| http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/vmware_cd_image.html
| 
| In English, short:
| After appling of patch you need rebuild vnconfig and kernel.
| vnconfig will get new options - '-s cdrom':
| 
| vnconfig -s cdrom -c vn0c image.iso
| 
| After configuring vn device you can use it in VMware2 as /dev/vn0c
| instead of physical CD-ROM device.

This sounds really cool.  I've wanted to do this before and couldn't.

Doug A.

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