On Mar 21, 2006, at 5:43 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > At 05:37 PM 3/21/2006 -0600, you wrote: >> This is a bit simplified but the disk images are basically just files >> that vmware treats as disks. they are similar to mounting a file on >> loopback.
How similar? >> Last I played with them the vmware images were about the same size as >> the files I put in them. so a full Xandros install would take about >> 1.2G. Minimal debian install about 50M (or something). > > Images will compress for 'transport', but you must uncompress them > for use. I'm just wondering if an image can be expanded. For instance, if I have an ext2/3 filesystem in a file, then I can expand it by appending a bunch of zeros followed by resizing the fs. Specifically, here is how one can expand a knoppix PDI by 100 MB: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 >> knoppix.img resize2fs -f knoppix.img Is there a similar way to expand VMWare images? If so, then it would be relatively simple to create a base install of kubuntu on say a 500 MB image (small enough for a CD), distribute it, expand it to say 5 GB, and then install a bunch more stuff using apt-get. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
