Hi I presume you want a clone of the setup on a USB disk.
look at http://legroom.net/2007/08/05/how-mount-vmware-disk-images-under-linux I am using vmware to run windows xp in ubuntu To access the vmdk disk for reading and writing do the following script - have only 1 partition on vmware disk #!/bin/bash cd where vmdk is located sudo modprobe nbd sudo vmware-loop vm.vmdk 1 /dev/nbd0 I then open another terminal and run another script #!/bin/bash sudo chmod 777 /dev/nbd0 sudo mount /dev/nbd0 /home/john/aa echo "to umount sudo umount /dev/nbd0" This gives you full access to the vmware drive from within the operating system I leave it to you to copy the files to the USB stick or iso in the appropriate manner John Eayrs On Wednesday 18 February 2009 18:04:52 Isaac Close wrote: > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been working on a highly customised > > > > configuration > > > > > based on Ubuntu. > > > The eventual target is for it to be booted from a USB > > > > stick > > > > > but all the > > > development has been done in a vmware image. > > > > > > Has anyone any guidelines about how to take the data > > > > in the > > > > > VMWare image > > > files and turn it into something that I can eventually > > > > burn > > > > > into a > > > bootable USB. > > Not sure if this answers your question, but iirc there is > some perl script someplace on that thing called the internet > allowing one to mount vmware images onto a linux box. > > You could then 'mkisofs' :) > > Isaac. -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
