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Hard setting anything will not work in this case, because turtlesim has no clue how large a meter is supposed to be (it is initialized by the size of a turtle in the images directory). To get turtlesim working without updating your ROS, you can copy the image files into /opt/ros/fuerte/share/turtlesim/images from the source download.

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