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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> > > > > zipped qemu disk image of BL 3.40. Unzipped it should expand to 100MB.
>
> Silly question.  Why is the unzipped .img so large?  100 meg is a little 
> big for the otherwise petite BL...

Based on some previous experimentation with the looped filesystem BL3 is 
using, which provides 20MB of space, I decided to give alot more for folks 
to play around in.  So, I guess to try and make sure anyone trying this 
out wouldn't run out of space.  Of course I could have made it smaller: I 
don't think I'd want it to be any less than 50MB, since if one added all 
possible add-ons to BL, things would be a bit tight even then.  But of 
course 100MB is nothing in this age of 100 and 200GB HD's.  So, I tried to 
strike a sort of balance: a 5 MB download is considered reasonable, even 
over dialin, and have 100 spare MB's for a qemu image can be pretty 
reasonably expected.  And it is unlikely that someone using this image 
under a traditional BL scenario would fill up the filesystem: heaven 
forbid anyone should try downloading a movie or alot of music files.  On 
the issue of music, another nice coincidence of BL under qemu is that qemu 
emulates SB sound hardware: likely Christof's SB sound package would even 
enable sound under qemu?

James