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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:55:16 -0500 (CDT)

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




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