> People,
> I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent
> thread posted by Petula on Precompactor issues and I also did a search
> for the process suggested by Steve Jain on how to use Precompactor. I
> followed the steps in Steve's modified procedure. Everything goes as
> expected until I get to step 25.
>
> On my version of VPC (7.0.2) running on an eMac with OS 10.2.8, there is
> no "browse" button in the Virtual Disk Assistant. At the Select a PC
> window of the VDA I see two selection boxes, one for PC and one for
> Disk. There is one entry in each (I only have one VM) but no "browse"
> button.
>
> In step 26 I see no "Compact the Disk" selection. All I get is the Disk
> Image Information window asking if I want to convert to a fixed size
> image or reclaim zeroed disk space. If I select the latter, it starts to
> run but fairly quickly stops dead because there is not enough disk space.
>
> In step 27 there is a mention of using a secondary file to compact the
> disk. I would like to try this but how is it done? At what point do you
> "select a New File, browse to a new location and click "next"?
>
> What am I missing or doing wrong?
>
> John

> John wrote:
> > People,
> > I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent
> > thread posted by Petula on Precompactor issues and I also did a search
> > for the process suggested by Steve Jain on how to use Precompactor. I
> > followed the steps in Steve's modified procedure. Everything goes as
> > expected until I get to step 25.
> >
> > On my version of VPC (7.0.2) running on an eMac with OS 10.2.8, there is
> > no "browse" button in the Virtual Disk Assistant. At the Select a PC
> > window of the VDA I see two selection boxes, one for PC and one for
> > Disk. There is one entry in each (I only have one VM) but no "browse"
> > button.
> >
> > In step 26 I see no "Compact the Disk" selection. All I get is the Disk
> > Image Information window asking if I want to convert to a fixed size
> > image or reclaim zeroed disk space. If I select the latter, it starts to
> > run but fairly quickly stops dead because there is not enough disk space.
> >
> > In step 27 there is a mention of using a secondary file to compact the
> > disk. I would like to try this but how is it done? At what point do you
> > "select a New File, browse to a new location and click "next"?
> >
> > What am I missing or doing wrong?
> >
> > John
>
> In order to zero out the disk space, the VDA needs to rewrite the
> entire image. So, assuming that you have a 15GB image, your computer
> would need an additional 15GB of free disk space in order to do it's
> work. Else, you will get the message that there is not enough disk
> space.

> In article <(email address - cut out)>,
> "Paul Power" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> > John wrote:
> > > People,
> > > I am trying to reduce the size of my VM. I read with interest the recent
> > > thread posted by Petula on Precompactor issues and I also did a search
> > > for the process suggested by Steve Jain on how to use Precompactor. I
> > > followed the steps in Steve's modified procedure. Everything goes as
> > > expected until I get to step 25.
> > >
> > > On my version of VPC (7.0.2) running on an eMac with OS 10.2.8, there is
> > > no "browse" button in the Virtual Disk Assistant. At the Select a PC
> > > window of the VDA I see two selection boxes, one for PC and one for
> > > Disk. There is one entry in each (I only have one VM) but no "browse"
> > > button.
> > >
> > > In step 26 I see no "Compact the Disk" selection. All I get is the Disk
> > > Image Information window asking if I want to convert to a fixed size
> > > image or reclaim zeroed disk space. If I select the latter, it starts to
> > > run but fairly quickly stops dead because there is not enough disk space.
> > >
> > > In step 27 there is a mention of using a secondary file to compact the
> > > disk. I would like to try this but how is it done? At what point do you
> > > "select a New File, browse to a new location and click "next"?
> > >
> > > What am I missing or doing wrong?
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > In order to zero out the disk space, the VDA needs to rewrite the
> > entire image. So, assuming that you have a 15GB image, your computer
> > would need an additional 15GB of free disk space in order to do it's
> > work. Else, you will get the message that there is not enough disk
> > space.
>
> Paul,
> Yeah, I kinda figured that but what about my questions on the steps for
> Steve's procedure?
>
> John