[Catalyst] VMware Image

[Rhett Creighton]

I'm probably going to make a few vmware images for myself to use that will 
be on the larger side (more than 300 MB compressed). 

To give people an idea of the minimum possible filesize, here is a 
standard install of ubuntu 6.10-server in a 63 MB package:
http://www.jcinacio.com/stuff/VMware-UbuntuServer-6.10/

The actual extracted size is 365MB.

I just took his image, installed cat-in-a-box, made a sample catalyst app,
ran the server, and used the app from another machine on the local
network.  Without doing anything tricky, I simply zipped up that image and
it came out to be 96 MB.  If I used strong compression, it came out to 76 
MB.  However, I think stronger compression defeats the point of this being 
a susposedly easy package to deploy.

I'll see if I can put together a nice ~150MB package.  I don't know if the
catalyst site can host that, or wants to, but I'll send it to whoever
wants it.

Rhett

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Daniel McBrearty wrote:

> the clone I made last night was pretty big --- 5GB or so. When I get
> some time I'll take a look to see where that is coming from.
> 
> On 12/21/06, Thomas Hartman <thomashartman1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > There's also pimpmycat. Takes a while to install, but more or less all
> > you have to is keep hitting the return key until it's done. Puts
> > everything (including local perl) under whatever directory you
> > specify.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/pimpmycat/
> >
> > 2006/12/21, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com>:
> > > Not sure. I've never tried before. I'm just cloning my m/c now. All I
> > > have to do then would be to remove all my working source and so on
> > > from my home, and change the password.
> > >
> > > That should leave you with a working cat install plus all the DBIx,
> > > TT, as well as apache, postgres and mysql. It might be a bit chunky
> > > though ... we'll see what happens ...
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/21/06, Brian <catalyst at gzmarketing.com> wrote:
> > > > Do you know what the approximate filesize would be (zipped or RAR'd)?
> > > >
> > > > Ubuntu would be great.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Brian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> > > > > does anyone have workable hosting for such a thing?
> > > > >
> > > > > I do my dev on an Ubuntu VM running on an XP host. It wouldn't be
> > > > > *that* much hassle for me to clone what I have, clean up a bit, and
> > > > > put a basic cat install on there.
> > > > >
> > > > > might have to wait a few weeks though, all the spare time I have goes
> > > > > into doing dev work at the mo. But I'd be glad to do it.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/21/06, Brian <catalyst at gzmarketing.com> wrote:
> > > > >> If that is so you can download the image and have a working development
> > > > >> system, I'd love it.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I want to look into Catalyst (currently use PHP / Smarty), but don't
> > > > >> have a lot of spare time right now to research it.  A ready to run image
> > > > >> would make it way easier to get started, especially if it had some
> > > > >> sample applications already in place.  I learn really fast from seeing
> > > > >> complete sample applications.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > >> Brian
> > > >
> > > >
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