Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:41:57 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000317113316.00b26100@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2>
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At 09:46 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > However, if you consider the size of the file and the possibility of > > corruption, then it should be archived with gzip and forget the > compression > > (gzip -1). Now it can be checked for errors. > >MD5 checksums are more compact and much cooler. Yes and my not knowing about them shows how often I look in the ISO dirs and those times that I do, the upload was in progress, so there was no checksum. ;) >Ever heard of 'reget'? Certainly. Tastes great, less filling. > > Call me a disinterested 3rd party. Never pull the ISO, only the parts > > needed. ;) > >I tend to agree with this. 650MB is way too much - perhaps the images could >be broken up according to the portion of the system (i.e., bin, sbin, >usr.bin, usr.sbin, etc, et cetera). That would duplicate work done already. If you want a stripped-down ISO, then burn your own from the distribution or take it a step further and make your own release. Come on folks! If you can't pull down the ISO, just buy the damn thing. You then get 4 CDs and save a lot of time and hassle. Regretting I ever made suggestions... Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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