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[!Syllable] Syllable free operating system family

AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[314]
the regular (free) download is the one on the right
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[315]
Yes, that's the one I described
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[316]
and you still get all that crap?
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[317]
Yes, otherwise you have to pay. Makes sense, but this is not working
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[318]
what I see when I click there is a countdown timer
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[319x2]
Yes, and then all the other stuff
I'd rather just upload the VirtualBox image I have
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[321]
how large is your virtualbox image?
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[322x2]
if you want, np - I can try google drive, though
145 MB
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[324x2]
Let me check
I'd like to have your image, but this is not working
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[326x3]
sorry, thought you were asking me
give me a place to upload to and I'll stick it there - you can then 
figure out what you want to do
I got no popups after the countdown - there was a captcha and then 
a button to download
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[329]
That button only produces the popup for me. Anyway, this is not something 
I can put our users through
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[330]
i think i have a qemu/kvm image from back when syllable desktop 0.6.7 
was released. if that's of any use, i can dig it up.
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[331x4]
I currently have my VB Bzip2'ed at 112 MB, so it should be very close 
to the 93 MB installation CD when I 7-Zip it
Thanks, but a QEmu image is less problematic for me to produce, because 
we have it in Syllable
I did the VB because it's in Ubuntu and VB works much better now 
than past versions. However, VMware seems to have disappeared from 
Ubuntu, so it's hard to make the images we used to have
I'll see if VB can export to OVF, and then hope VMware can use the 
VB disk format
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[335]
ok. just had a quick look, the qemu-generated .vmdk i have is 441MB 
uncompressed, and 79MB after 7z -mx=9.
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[336]
That's better than expected. Maybe indeed a new 7-Zip version
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[337]
That's with 7-Zip 9.20.
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[338]
Do you think the VMDK could be dropped into the configuration file 
for our old image?
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[339]
No idea, sorry. I was just wondering why I created the image as a 
.vmdk, but well -- at least that seems to compress quite well.
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[340x2]
Thanks for checking
Adrian, I could try that with your OVF: use the configuration and 
replace the VMDK using QEmu. Could you upload it somewhere simple 
without the VMDK in it?
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[342x2]
I can email it
Andreas, what size HD did you have for the VM you had?
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[344]
OK, the email in my account here should work
Andreas
22-Sep-2012
[345]
Adrian: 1GB
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[346]
The VB image is 10 GB; that shouldn't be the problem
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[347x2]
hard to see why there's such a difference then
sent the ovf conf file
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[349]
Just the file, or the archive without the VMDK?
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[350x4]
just the file
there are only three files one of them the checksums
not sure that's needed
let me send that as well
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[354x2]
Thanks!
Did VMware make the archive, or did you pack the files manually?
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[356]
packed manually - the archive form is OVA, but workstation only produces 
the files
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[357]
OK
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[358x2]
here's a link on google drive - supposedly anyone with the link can 
access with no login
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-dRFgFxR1iJOEtySWJ5NWFBMXc
Kaj
22-Sep-2012
[360x2]
That just works, and in under two minutes :-)
Is it meant for public downloads?
AdrianS
22-Sep-2012
[362x2]
sure, if you share it that way
same as all the others +/- some little things - you have 5 GB too 
if you have GMail, no?