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Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image

From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:07:55 -0700

t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> Silly question. Why is the unzipped .img so large? 100 meg is a little big
> for the otherwise petite BL...

It's an almost-empty image of a 100mb hard disk. The zip deflate
compression shrinks it to almost 5MB. I would have thought that the
compressed size would be closer to 3MB, though. I should see if I can
shrink it in any way...

David

Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/22/2006
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/22/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, James Miller, 04/23/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/22/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, David Moberg, 04/23/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, James Miller, 04/23/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/23/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/23/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, James Miller, 04/23/2006
    - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, 3aoo-cvfd, 04/23/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/23/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, sindi keesan, 04/24/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/23/2006
  - Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, James Miller, 04/24/2006
- Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image, t . maiden, 04/25/2006