Dear Micheal,
That's brilliant. Sounds like a Debian/FSL live CD is not far off! Why
would you run it on a VM though (instead of just straight from a CD on
your computer -with 500M you even have room for some nice extra tools on
a CD image, e.g. GIMP, tar, emacs, etc)? Must admit I'm not a VM fan...
I guess that if you de-select everything in dselect [sorry] and then
re-select gnuplot and tix, all your other programs will be in there
automatically (thanks to Debian package management). That's the way I
did it when making my cygwin `image' as well -was impressed by that!
If you run it off a live CD you can also just mount your Windows drive.
AM
Michael Hanke wrote:
> Finally I installed the Debian packages of FSL (excluding fsl-feeds).
> The resulting VM occupies 1.3 GB of diskspace and approx. 500 MB as a
> bzip2-compressed tarball. This is quite heavy, but still less than a
> Live-CD image.
>
> Another advantage of a VM image is that all users would have to download
> such an image only once as it can be updated easily via the package
> management system. This means both the operating system and FSL.
>
> A nice addition to this minimal system could be a Samba server for easy
> access to the VM filesystem from the Win32 host.
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