Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Morss
It's a full CD, so the ISO is ~700MB. It's got a complete Ubuntu installation kit on it, and the live CD part has a pretty good development environment and set of Unix applications (all from Edgey). If you let me know where I should put it, I'll put it there for you. Steve . John Griessen wr

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-20 Thread John Griessen
Steve Morss wrote: It's an Ubuntu Edgey Live CD with gschem, pcb , gnucap, iverilog, and the support utilities all installed. gives you the option of installing Ubuntu on your hard drive. (This has some interesting possibilities for VMWare users. You can boot it under VMWare, and install

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Morss
I've been thinking about VMWare vs a live CD for gEDA, and it seems that both should be available. A VMWare image is great for all the reasons that have been talked about. A live CD is good for people who just want to try something (no installation required). I've been working on a live CD v

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I just downloaded it and installed it in a vmplayer on my linux dektop box. Next, I will try to install geda on this virtual place. Also, I have to figure out how to slow down my optical mouse in dsl-n. You're off and running Kai-Martin. I think this idea could get "

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread Igor2
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, John Griessen wrote: >Igor2 wrote: >> About debian, i had such a project some time ago > > The only part >> that actually needed some thinking was how to get it work in a chroot with >> the already running X server. > >[jg]Is that a working thing, now? Yes, as it's totally

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread John Griessen
Igor2 wrote: About debian, i had such a project some time ago The only part that actually needed some thinking was how to get it work in a chroot with the already running X server. [jg]Is that a working thing, now? A nice example on using squashfs is iSteve's Olive, which is a live cd f

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread Igor2
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, John Griessen wrote: >Mike Hansen wrote: >> >> That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it? > >It takes a little work to get one of those set up. It's possible. >Debian is easier to set up a distro with minimal anything beyond what gEDA >needs. Fedor

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread Mike Hansen
From: John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],gEDA user mailing list To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:27:41 -0600 Mike Hansen wrote: That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it?

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread John Griessen
Mike Hansen wrote: That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it? It takes a little work to get one of those set up. It's possible. Debian is easier to set up a distro with minimal anything beyond what gEDA needs. Fedora is already done. How much different would the VM

RE: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-18 Thread Mike Hansen
That would be perfect, question is will the gEDA suite run on it? I have minimal Linux knowledge and I cannot answer that question. Anyone? From: Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list To: geda-user@seul.org Subject: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image Date: Sun, 1

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Hansen
I suppose a torrent option is also viable. I know many of the linux VMWare images are done this way. From: John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],gEDA user mailing list To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2

RE: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Hansen
VMWare performance is very good on any 2GHz+ machine. It just works. The only real hook is with networking, unfortunately they best I've been able to get working is either shared directories or ftp between virtual machine and host. But internet access has always been a piece of cake, no prob

Re: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Probably the thing that's holding this up is who wants to host a 500MB+ download? Hmm. I am tempted to volunteer. My webspace is mostly unused. Monthly traffic is 10GB only, I have a server with about 94GB going unused each month. I'll put it up for a while and see...