> I am willing yes .......... Just ignorant I'm not very familiar with VirtualBox, but in VMware there is a shrink utility for virtual disks (basically a defragmenter so you're not packaging blocks of zeros). You'll want to run the VirtualBox equivalent of this utility to minimize the distribution size.
I'd suggest using BitTorrent. This will allow you to distribute the file in pieces that are verified with a hash (unlike something like FTP that could pass errors). Here's a generic tutorial on creating a torrent: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Torrent. I hear uTorrent is popular for Windows, so this tutorial may be more helpful: http://www.utorrent.com/torrent.php. When you're creating the torrent, use http://northwest.aprs2.net/rivettracker/announce.php as the tracker "announce" URL. This assigns my Tier 2 server as the coordinator for the peer-to-peer exchange. Once you have the torrent file created and running in your torrent client, email the .torrent to me and I will add it on my server software. I'll add it to the tracker software, to allow the coordination, and also add it to rtorrent to help distribute the bandwidth load. 73 Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
