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Topic: DSL size, Embeded

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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,20:46

DSL has a size cap of 50MB, however, DSL Embeded does not. The size of the emebeded release keeps growing. I currently have a small USB key, 128 MB, and after formating I have 121 MB. DSL embeded uses 118 MB leaving me little room left over, will there be a cap on size for DSL embeded to say 100 MB or 110 MB?

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roberts

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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,22:24

I only do developement in DSL proper. DSL has a size limit of 50MB,
I think drop this into a directory of qemu and support files. I do this only as a courtesy for our users. I have no control on the size of Qemu. It is a separate and totally independent project. I suspect as newer releases of Qemu come out, they will be larger. They too keep adding features and capabilities. I know of no know size restrictions on Qemu. You can always visit the Qemu developement site and try newer/older versions of Qmeu that might better fit your intended use.

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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,23:03

I thought the main reason that DSL embedded is so large is not the size of qemu (which seems to be about 2Mb), but the hard disk image /qemu/harddisk (which is about 60Mb). This hard disk image is pratically empty (the only thing it contains is a very small backup.tar.gz) and so could easily be reduced in size. Therefore I would have thought the best way to keep the size down is not limiting yourself to older qemus (since new version have a whole raft of improvements) but to instead reduce the size of the hard disk image.

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,04:59

The size of the virtual hard drive has not changed since I first added it for the convience of the user base. It primarily serves the purpose to hold a backup.tar.gz with Qemu virtual machine code specific settings. To do without would mean less basic functionality, i.e., sound, etc. The target pendrive ( the one offer in the DSL store) was a 128 MB thereby allowing a 60MB virtual drive. Most users want to increase the size not decrease it. Like I said before we provide this setup as a convience. You may certainly visit the Qemu site and obtain more tools and make whatever size virtual hard drive you so desire. Don't look here for mutiple versions (sizes) of Qemu here. But to answer the question asked, the virtual hard is not growing with each release.

cbagger01

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Posted: Sep. 11 2005,04:46

If you want DSL embedded to be smaller, simply delete the hard disk file and remove the reference to it in the *.bat and *.sh text files.

Of course, you will lose the ability to backup your data and the soundcard will not be correctly detected, but short of creating your own custom hard disk image file, your options are limited.

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