Re: Re: VMWare image for running/developing Django

2006-08-16 Thread Felix Ingram
I thought that this thread sounded interesting so I had a go creating several vmware images. The first was an Ubuntu which weighed in at over 500 mb (all sizes are the 'used' portion from df -h), which then stopped working (I think I _may_ have deleted the kernel image while trying to save space).

Re: Re: VMWare image for running/developing Django

2006-08-15 Thread Michael
Yes, I've got DSL as well. ISO is 50mb after installing it onto HDD size groing to 150-160mb compress image around 80mb ( without python ,django ,svn) DSL also include a lot of tools - so if remove them them -may be possible to get image around 30-40mb haven't tried any other distro but I think it

Re: Re: Re: VMWare image for running/developing Django

2006-08-15 Thread Matthew Flanagan
I saw this a while back: """ Python Web Developer Appliance includes a complete set of tools for developing and deploying web applications using Python """ http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/289 It is 448MB but includes quite a lot more than just python, django and sqlite. On 15/

Re: Re: VMWare image for running/developing Django

2006-08-15 Thread Jon Atkinson
Michael, It's a great idea, but the images do seem a little large - if you're running only python and sqlite, would one of the smaller distributions not be more suitable as a base? There are plenty of floppy and business-card distributions out there which are around 70mb (Damn Small Linux springs