Stan, it's for a temporary experiment. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stan Goodman <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren > <[email protected]> wrote: > > sara fink wrote: > > > I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd > > > it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have > > > control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very > > > limited. 119mb for /. > > > If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , > > > kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So > > > kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no > > > space left. > > > > > > Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? > > > > > > I am opened to new ideas. > > > > 2 options out of the top of my head: > > > > 1. a temporary fix: you can turn /usr/src into a symlink to another > > partition. > > > > 2. a permanent fix: create another (much larger) partition, and copy > > the original root partition to this new partition. find how to do this > > copy while the guest system is NOT running, and find how to tell > > virtualbox to use the new partition. > > > > --guy > > On a more fundamental level, why was Sara limited to the live CD, seeing > that the download of the full gentoo CD is just as free as the live one? > If the purpose of the virtual installation is more than a temporary > experiment (which is what live versions are mostly for) might it be > worthwhile to download the full version and do it right? > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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