From: John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:18:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306091820.GK27517@getafix.willow.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3373C2E-7BCA-4AAE-9CC3-443179836390@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:23:21AM +0100, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez <bass@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I think that it's a nice idea.
> Maybe 2 versions: with X and w/o X just to reduce the space needed.
How would shipping twice the number of images save space? However, at
the last count there was 1.8GB of space free on the torrent
tracker/mirrors dedicated for this kind of stuff, and my personal gnome
images easily fit in 500Mb.
> Can be great to try gentoo inside any other linux or win machine. Can
> be great too to try new systems ebuilds or to test things.
Yeah, it's not a bad idea at all. I'd actually be fairly comfortable in
keeping a semi-up to date image anyways, but at release time I generally
don't have the time.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-04 7:32 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on VMWare - few ideas Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-03-05 23:23 ` Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez
2006-03-05 23:58 ` José Carlos Cruz Costa
2006-03-06 9:18 ` John Mylchreest [this message]
2006-03-06 1:35 ` Marius Mauch
2006-03-06 5:59 ` tuxp3
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