Freesbie on USB stick + qemu

Michael S msherman77 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 18 05:58:20 PST 2008


I should have been clearer, I am running Freesbie from
a usb stick. However it is running inside Qemu with XP
being the host machine.

Michael 

--- William Bulley <web at umich.edu> wrote:

> According to Michael S <msherman77 at yahoo.com>:
> > 
> > Then I remembered Freesbie and
> > decided to give it a try, running it from a usb
> stick
> > using Qemu. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu
> >
>
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/01/11/run-ubuntu-710-from-windows/
> > And the only thing that I had to do was to replace
> the
> > Ubuntu ISO image with the one of Freesbie. It
> feels
> > pretty snappy with Kqemu acceleration driver
> installed.
> 
> G'day!
> 
> I must be dense today, but I don't understand the
> QEMU
> connection in your above post.  Are you using QEMU
> on
> the host machine or on the Freesbie pendrive system?
> 
> And if the former, what is the point (or benefit) to
> you?
> And does this have anything to do with your broken
> main
> board?  I take it you are running Freesbie on your
> OpenBSD
> laptop?  Else why make the reference to it?
> 
> Like I said, I am confused...   :-(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> web...
> 
> --
> William Bulley                     Email:
> web at umich.edu
> 
> 


Michael Sherman
http://msherman77.blogspot.com/


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