Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

[Igor2 <igor2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, John Griessen wrote:

>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.
>

About debian, i had such a project some time ago (you may remember it
John, you have tested it for me). It is a big tar.gz (~60 megs) and it
unpacks a debian with all the libs and binaries needed to run (an old
version of) geda and pcb. It was not too hard to create it. The only part
that actually needed some thinking was how to get it work in a chroot with
the already running X server. 

The tarball was intended to solve the problem of non-debian linux users who
didn't want to install dependencies (but had an X server and chroot
installed, both considered a common thing imo). To make it standalone, one
would need to add an X server and a kernel and maybe some basic programs
to communicate with the host system (depending on what emulator is
targeted). I think a compressed tarball or image still could be below 128
megs, which should be acceptable for the target audience. For compression 
I would recommend squashfs in the long run. A nice example on using
squashfs is iSteve's Olive, which is a live cd featuring abiword, mozilla,
irc clients and other common apps and takes only about 70 megs to
download.

In case anyone wants to try the chroot geda out or experiment with the
idea, the url is http://inno.bme.hu/~igor2/geda-test





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