Re: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

Sorry, I have compiled it with managed C++. The new version which doesn't
require .NET is in the same place.

Wow! It only depends on kernel32.dll !!!

Jarek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <ja...@zd...>
To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <ja...@zd...>; "Mathias Walter"
<mat...@gm...>; <col...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root


>
> I liked the idea of having sparse image files so much that I created a
tool
> for decompressing *.bz2 and making the result sparse at the same time:
>
> http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/sparsify.exe
> (source is here: http://jaak.sav.net/colinux/sparsify.cpp)
>
> Usage:
>
> bzip2 -cd image_file.bz2 | sparsify.exe image_file
>
> It will print "#" for each non-zero chunk and "." for each all-zero chunk.
>
> BTW. CoLinux works like a charm with these sparse files!
> BTW2. Bzipping with "sparsify.exe" is actually faster than normal because
> fewer disk blocks get written to the disk.
> BTW3. Untested with really large images (over 4GB) but should be fine.
>
> Jarek
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <ja...@zd...>
> To: "Mathias Walter" <mat...@gm...>;
> <col...@li...>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root
>
>
> >
> > I thought about it but at the same time I wanted GNOME to be usable with
> the
> > default image. Unfortunately you need >512 MB image for this.
> >
> > Jarek
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mathias Walter" <mat...@gm...>
> > To: <col...@li...>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:22 PM
> > Subject: RE: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root
> >
> >
> > > Hmm,
> > >
> > > the question may must be, how can it be unbzipped and sparsed at the
> > > same time? Correct?
> > > Up to yesterday I do not fully understand sparse files, but now.
> > > I can not answer the above question.
> > > Maybe you can make the image file size much smaller (i.e. 500 MB or 1
> > > GB) and everybody who needs more space, can expand the file with the
> > > tools listen at the WIKI page?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mathias
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jaroslaw Kowalski [mailto:ja...@zd...]
> > > > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:18 PM
> > > > To: Mathias Walter; col...@li...
> > > > Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > How can it be sparse and bzipped at the same time ?
> > > >
> > > > Jarek
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Mathias Walter" <mat...@gm...>
> > > > To: "'Jaroslaw Kowalski'" <ja...@zd...>;
> > > > <col...@li...>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:17 PM
> > > > Subject: RE: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Jaroslaw,
> > > > >
> > > > > can you make the image as an sparse image per default? It would be
> > > > > usefull, because I don't have enough space and configured
> > > > the image from
> > > > > 9. of April as I need.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Regards, Mathias
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: col...@li...
> > > > > > [mailto:col...@li...] On Behalf
> > > > > > Of Jaroslaw Kowalski
> > > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:51 PM
> > > > > > To: col...@li...
> > > > > > Subject: [coLinux-devel] Minimal Fedora Root
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone of you actually installed 'fedora core 1' that I
posted
> > > > > > yesterday? (my logs say that 22 people have downloaded it
> > > > since then)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm very intersted in hearing your opinion or at least
> > > > > > learning if it worked
> > > > > > for anyone beside me.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If it works, I'd like to ask Dan to upload it to sourceforge
> > > > > > because serving
> > > > > > it myself, takes a considerable amout of bandwidth.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jarek
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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