Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:08 +0100 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: "Don 'Duck' Harper" <duck@duckland.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991215163608.A4358@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org>; from duck@duckland.org on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:04:21PM -0600 References: <38571717.F25976F7@newsguy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org>
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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
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