[Testing] gcc installation issue in Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on Virtual Box

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 19:10, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, kushan athukorala
> <kushan.athukorala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for
>> automated test designs for OLPC activities.
>>
>> When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating
>> glibc-common library.
>>
>> Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if any?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Kushan Athukorala
>
> Boosting available memory and storage space may make a difference.
> See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image#Installing_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions for
> some experiences.
> Enlarging the overlay size with --overlay-size-mb 1024 and the VM memory
> allocation may help provide "headroom" for the installation.

I agree, but even then, I don't recommend using soas for that. What
about just installing Fedora 13 then install sugar, development tools,
etc?

Regards,

Tomeu

>      --Fred
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