[haiku-development] Re: Pre-Alpha Release Builds

  • From: Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:31:48 -0400

Axel Dörfler wrote:
"scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As for the image size, 400MB can be a bit cramped if trying to build
larger programs, since many times you try to have 2 or 3 copies of a
source tree loaded so you can create proper patches and such things.
When working on CMake we were using a 512MB image and were running out
of room.  I finally switched to 2GB and that was plenty.  The size of
the zip files doesn't grow by much by making the image size larger, so
maybe consider increasing it.

I agree that 400 MB might be a bit too small. I don't know what a good size would be, though; personally, I'm always short on disk space, and I would usually need to struggle to find space for 2 GB somewhere :-)


If you copy the files from the image in the bzip2 file to a hard disk drive partition, why is the size of that image in the bzip2 file important? I expand the image in the bzip2 file, mount the image, and then copy the files in the image to an initialized hard disk partition that is a several gigabytes in size. Thus, for me the size of the image in the bzip2 file is of no importance as long as it is not so huge that it would consume all of my disk space when I'm expanding the image.

Best regards,
Gerald


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