Date:  Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:28:59 -0400
From:  "Brian N. Smith" <brian (at mark) nuonce.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:04586] Re: (BQ) OT - vmware on centos
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <005701c65de1$3d3b5080$1e64a8c0 (at mark) nuonce.net>
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> I have found its handy to build a new distro using the instruction nuonce
> provides for creating a new ISO for vmware guests running the Nu-CentOS-BQ
> distros.   Because, they assume you have a certain size of disk (if I 
> recall, a min
> of 30 GB), which wastes a lot of space.  YMMV.  This only really makes a
> difference if you pre-allocate disk space.

I use VM Workstation for all of my builds.  (On WinXP, bleh, I know). 
Anyway,
you can get away with 20 gb using VMware.  Not sure why it won't install on 
a
regular 20 gig hard drive though, that is why I say "30 gigs".

Any who, your right, do not allocate disk space, and your good.  I think 
after about
4 weeks of running a vmware with 40 gig hard drive, I actually used < 2 gigs 
of
physical space.

I never allocate space.  Never had a neeed to.  Works just fine when you do 
not.

Thanks!
Brian N. Smith
NuOnce Networks, Inc.