At 05:37 PM 3/21/2006 -0600, you wrote:

>This is a bit simplified but the disk images are basically just files
>that vmware treats as disks.  they are similar to mounting a file on
>loopback.
>
>Last I played with them the vmware images were about the same size as
>the files I put in them.  so a full Xandros install would take about
>1.2G.  Minimal debian install about 50M (or something).

Images will compress for 'transport', but you must uncompress them for use.

         Lee

 
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