virtualbox question

[Stan Goodman]

At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren 
<choo at actcom.co.il> wrote:
> sara fink wrote:
> > I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd
> > it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have
> > control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very
> > limited. 119mb  for /.
> > If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / ,
> > kernel compilation same thing.  the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So
> > kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no
> > space left.
> >
> > Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions?
> >
> > I am opened to new ideas.
>
> 2 options out of the top of my head:
>
> 1. a temporary fix: you can turn /usr/src into a symlink to another
> partition.
>
> 2. a permanent fix: create another (much larger) partition, and copy
> the original root partition to this new partition. find how to do this
> copy while the guest system is NOT running, and find how to tell
> virtualbox to use the new partition.
>
> --guy

On a more fundamental level, why was Sara limited to the live CD, seeing 
that the download of the full gentoo CD is just as free as the live one? 
If the purpose of the virtual installation is more than a temporary 
experiment (which is what live versions are mostly for) might it be 
worthwhile to download the full version and do it right?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel