Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:24:24 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <199912151624.RAA01525@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Alexander Langer wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> 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.
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4648 Jan 28 1999 /usr/bin/minigzip
Regards
Oliver
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