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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:57:24 +0000

As long as that extra space remains usable, its OK with me. I was afraid it
would be permanently locked away and lost for any use. I would hate to waste
so much space...

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 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
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