Date:  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:57:45 +0200
From:  "Arthur Sherman" <cobalt-list (at mark) compros.co.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:04621] Re: (BQ) OT - vmware on centos
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <00dc01c65e8c$ed7e0810$3701a8c0@lapxp>
In-Reply-To:  <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.
> 


Right, thanks a lot for this.



Arthur 


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