virtualbox question

[sara fink]

Stan, it's for a temporary experiment.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>wrote:

> 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
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