Catalyst continues....

So far the catalyst is chugging along :) It's nice to be able to remotely access my home machine so I can work on this while I'm at work. It's even more fault tolerant than the livecd-ng, and the instructions seem easier the second time around.

Just of kicks...

I'm trying to build a Gentoo LiveCD that has VMWare workstation installed on it, kinda like the CoolLinux CD that was put out last year some time. I tried to do the LiveCD thing before with Gentoo's catalyst, but at the time I found that hard to follow, and up until now, implement. I found some instructions on Gentoo-Wiki.com using livecd-ng, and that seems easier to set up. I had to tweak the script some to actually get it to work, and even then I ran out of space before the script finished compiling all the software. I might try catalyst now. More in a minute

VMWare goodness

I finally broke down and purchased a copy of VMWare workstation 4.5, and I am enjoying every minute of its use. I have been able to try out different Linux distros and some instances of Microsoft Windows working. Very cool indeed. I just got turned on to Arch Linux this way, and I want to install it independently of a VM. I want to replace Xandros 2 on my machine, but I might keep it there, just because I don't want to play musical partitions again. Good thing I got that copy ov VMWare :)