When wanting to avoid dangerous hard disk operations, i would recommend andLinux. It runs a kernel within windows, and on top of the filesystem. You only need access to ext3 partition somewhere for compiling (since andLinux does not know "ln -sf" on NTFS or the like), running lilypond works perfectly here, and about three times faster than the official windows build, by the way...
Yours, Arno Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > We had a *bad* experience with Wubi; somebody lost his computer (I think > it > was the second Andrew, not Hawryluk. > > I think we should not recommend wubi. > > Carl > > > On 7/1/09 11:50 AM, "Jonathan Kulp" <jonlancek...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Mark Polesky wrote: >>> Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: >>>>>> 1) Memory: use the recommended base size of 384 MB? >>>>> As long as there's enough memory to run things, you're OK. >>>>> Extra memory needs will be met by using virtual memory (on the >>>>> hard disk). >>>> Well, I would recommend _at least_ 384MB, but running two OS'es >>>> at the same time on a computer with 0.5G RAM can be hard. >>> >>> Actually, VirtualBox will not let me use less than 75% of my host >>> RAM. So I can set it to 377 MB at the most. Should I quit now, or >>> see if it can work? At the moment, I just want to compile the docs. >>> >>> I'll wait for some advice before I proceed this time! >>> - Mark >>> >> >> I don't think it can hurt anything if you set your virtual RAM to >> 377. It'll probably go sort of slow on Windows. I assume it's XP >> you're running, right? XP can probably survive on the remaining >> RAM while the virtual machine is running. >> >> If you run into a wall here, you might try installing Ubuntu via >> Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/), which installs Ubuntu from >> inside Windows, creating a dual-boot setup without having to >> repartition. I don't think you could use the lilybuntu.iso with >> Wubi (it does a network install, not a CD or iso install), but I >> could provide you with the shell script I used to install all of >> the Lilypond build dependencies. Downside is that you'd have to >> reboot to go into the Linux side, but at least there'd be enough RAM. >> >> Jon >> >> p.s. Could your machine handle a RAM upgrade, or is it maxed out >> already? I have two 1GB sticks of laptop RAM that I'm not using >> anymore, and if they were compatible with your machine I'd be >> happy to send you one or both. >> -- >> Jonathan Kulp >> http://www.jonathankulp.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > lilypond-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/lilybuntu-confusion-tp24278178p24295492.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
