I have tried compressing it with 7z, and just got a gain of around 100 megs. I will try to take a look at the bdist option.
Soes the use of compressed filesystems slow things down? Besides the size issue, do you have any other feedback? Thanks On 9 nov, 16:06, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 9, 1:00 pm, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > > > It is that big because just the sage directory itself is very big. The > > guest OS is really very minimal: almost no services running, and only > > installed the very basic stuff (no x server, for instance). > > > Maybe some space could be freed if, after compiling, the source code > > could be erased. But i am not sure if it would save a lot of space. > > It is definitely possible to delete the source code. If you have > enough diskspace you can use the command sage -bdist. This builds a > binary distribution in an extra directory. I think source is about 380 > MB, so it would be almoust - 20%. > > Main trick to get lower size is to use compressed filesystems > systematically (like squashed fs). > This is my current smallest size machine (with > X):http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/VM/sage-lite-vm-a1.ova(412 > MB) -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
