virtualbox question
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. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il 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 Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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Stan, it's for a temporary experiment. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il 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 Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
On 05/15/10 17:26, 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. It's been a while since I used Gentoo livecd, but what you describe sounds very strange. If there is a small partition created by Gentoo install process, it's going to be /boot, which is meant only to store kernels and grub stuff. If for some reason you really ended up with such a small / on hard drive, you can always boot off of the live CD again, and use parted to resize it. In general, if you want to get a real feel for what Gentoo is like, you are better off getting minimal install CD, and following the handbook. P.S. How is this VirtualBox question? P.P.S If you want to talk about Gentoo in real-time, I can often be found on #gentoo-he on irc.freenode.net. -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh http://www.total-knowledge.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
