[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index]

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

That 500MB does not include VMWare. You simply link to the VMWare player download. My feeling this is irrelevant in the discussion.

My uncompressed VMWare image for Fedora5 is ~3GB. I am guessing compressed you are looking at a 500MB download. I suspect you could do a stripped down version of the distro without things like OO that might help in that dept.

If you want to pull in a broader audience this is a great way to go. You don't have to do anything to your Windows system other than to install VMWare Player and download the image. We have the opporunity here to setup the image with everything in place from footprints, libraries, have the file system all setup to allow novice users to be productive right out of the box. No ./configure, no make, nothing.

Had this been available when I first started using gEDA it would have saved me a lot of headaches.


From: John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:27:41 -0600

Mike Hansen wrote:

That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it?

It takes a little work to get one of those set up. It's possible.
Debian is easier to set up a distro with minimal anything beyond what gEDA needs. Fedora is already done. How much different would the VMware image be from Fedora to damnsmalllinux? The VMware binary still is a large chunk of that 500MB Fedora image I bet.

John G




_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

_________________________________________________________________
With tax season right around the corner, make sure to follow these few simple tips. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=HMFebtagline



_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user