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Mark,

You first question: You're right about the samba share, you can use a samba share from the machine where VMWare server is running. I was replying to a question from mYthOx, who's using an ESX server, which is a custom OS from VMWare (custom stripped down and modified Linux, that isn't able to support SMB shares as far as I know). In that case you need another machine running on top of that ESX server that hosts the ISO files...

Your second question: I think there's less than 1 percent chance that using another similar OS might work, exept maybe for upgraded OS distributions (importing fedora core 6 using the fc5 routines might just work). You're always welcome to try though and/or to add one yourself. You'll need some knowledge about the OS you want to add, I'm working on Damn Small Linux and other flavors of linux, BSD and thinstation in my development machine... It'll take some time though for me to finish that work. Of course if you happen to knowsome perl you may want to try it yourself. Here's a link with info for Damn Small Linux:

Damn small linux over PXE

http://news.mattiasschlenker.de/2006/02/22/pxe-booting-damnsmalllinux/

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