From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 7:35:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cichlids.com (as15-031.rp-plus.de [149.221.237.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB7B1529F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B0AAB7F; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:20 +0100 (CET) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA04447; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from alex) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:08 +0100 From: Alexander Langer To: "Don 'Duck' Harper" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991215163608.A4358@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mail-Followup-To: Don 'Duck' Harper , "Daniel C. Sobral" , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38571717.F25976F7@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from duck@duckland.org on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:04:21PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Don 'Duck' Harper (duck@duckland.org): > fires up XFree86's VGA server. And it fits all this on one floppy. They > do have two floppies, one for local CD/disk installs, and another for > NFS/FTP/HTTP/SMB installs. > So, I know it can be done. Is it worth the effort? I donno. Maybe they gzip the binaries and gunzip them into MFS before using them. gunzip has approx 106 kb, but you save about 50% per executeable. Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message