On Nov 9, 4:17 pm, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > I have tried compressing it with 7z, and just got a gain of around 100 > megs. I will try to take a look at the bdist option. > > Soes the use of compressed filesystems slow things down? > > Besides the size issue, do you have any other feedback? > > Thanks > > On 9 nov, 16:06, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 9, 1:00 pm, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > > > > It is that big because just the sage directory itself is very big. The > > > guest OS is really very minimal: almost no services running, and only > > > installed the very basic stuff (no x server, for instance). > > > > Maybe some space could be freed if, after compiling, the source code > > > could be erased. But i am not sure if it would save a lot of space. > > > It is definitely possible to delete the source code. If you have > > enough diskspace you can use the command sage -bdist. This builds a > > binary distribution in an extra directory. I think source is about 380 > > MB, so it would be almoust - 20%. > > > Main trick to get lower size is to use compressed filesystems > > systematically (like squashed fs). > > This is my current smallest size machine (with > > X):http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/VM/sage-lite-vm-a1.ova(412 > > MB)
Hm ... I am downloading again, I have just a normal PC and the previous download crashed my setup (filled my partition). Download will need 1,5 hours. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
