Well today I polished up that Debian image with the gEDA suite preloaded and ready to use. It's set to boot to X-Windows, and I adding menus to the graphical gEDA tools in the Windowmaker menus. Also made it where one would have one-click shutdown or restart off the OS from Windowmaker - I tried to make it all as easy as possible. One of the reasons I chose Debian for this was so that if anyone wanted something more to add - such as GNOME or KDE, you can use apt-get to easily install them.
The normal login is 'gedauser' with 'geda' as the password. 'geda' is the root password as well...
Keep in mind that I didn't load a ton of stuff on this image, nor did I try and make it look pretty. It's lean and mean, with pretty much just enough loaded to present a working gEDA environment in order to keep the file size down.
There's right at 700 megs worth of files split in multiple parts here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/338456874/Debian5_gEDA.zip.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/338460400/Debian5_gEDA.zip.002
http://rapidshare.com/files/338463941/Debian5_gEDA.zip.003
http://rapidshare.com/files/338472404/Debian5_gEDA.zip.004
http://rapidshare.com/files/338476508/Debian5_gEDA.zip.005
http://rapidshare.com/files/338482314/Debian5_gEDA.zip.006
http://rapidshare.com/files/338486162/Debian5_gEDA.zip.007
The files were compressed and split with 7-zip. I'd imagine anything would extract them, but if you encounter problems, I'd go snag 7-zip at www.7-zip.org
To run this image, you'll need VMWare Player from:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Either open the file 'debian-500-i386-netinst.vmx' from within the VMWare player, or double-click that file to run the VM.
If it asks if you've copied or moved the image the first time you run it, choose 'copied'.
I'd download the Linux VMWare tools once prompted (the first time you run) so you can more easily move from one desktop to the other (the mouse focus moves seamlessly, there's automatic resolution readjustment when going full screen, etc). I've already preloaded them on the Debian image, so I believe all you need to do is let the installer download the tools - it will then let the image boot and everything 'just works' seamlessly.
If you can spare it, I'd set VMWare player to use 1024 megs of RAM with this Virtual Machine. That's what I use on mine and it's super snappy. It might run well off of 512 too... VMWare's default memory setting is 256 - I'd bump it up to 512 at the least.
I mentioned earlier that I've created menus in Windowmaker to a lot of the graphical gEDA apps. There's a menu for xterm as well for running the many command-line based applications in the suite. For a full list, look at the geda site at http://www.gpleda.org/
Hope this helps someone get off the ground. Now I'm off to see what I can do with it too ;-)
Edited by shadwolf (01/21/10 07:00 AM)
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