Søndag 25. januar 2009, skrev Michael De Groote: > what kind of virtual machine file is it? (vmware? virtualbox? xen-based?) > what is 'huge' ? 200MB? 400MB? 700MB? 2GB? > > no way to slim it down?
Well, I believe scripting is the slimmest and most allround way to go. And a tool to create more complete vm-images for different vm's. A while back I was playing around with preseeding the debian install media. If my memory is correct, that was when Sarge was going from testing to stable. Hopefully preseeding is still there. With a package list and some scripting, everything can be downloaded from the net. It will of course require some work, but the whole install iso should be down to 30-40 MB as is the usual "businesscard" iso. I will in the near future move unattended into a vmware ESX farm, and use the same virtualized server for both building and serving the install share. I really want to test Debian in that environment anyways to see where things break.. Installing and compiling are great test-cases. I tend to automate such things :-) Now, finding the time is the hard part. That said, the unattended build system should be fixed to support newer gcc and glibc. I hope it is possible to kill off most of the host dependency leaking in the same go. Just my 50 Øre cheers Nils ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
