[Catalyst] VMware Image

[Daniel McBrearty]

it's all yours ;-) if you have time to sort this from a clean system,
it likely makes more sense than me messing around with a copy of my
working system which has all manner of stuff on it.

cheers

D

I think as long as it has cat, TT, DBIX and mysqlite, that's enough.

On 12/21/06, Rhett Creighton <rhett at creighton.com> wrote:
> 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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