Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:30:05 -0500 From: James FitzGibbon <james@targetnet.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kai Voigt <k@123.org>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <FreeBSD-CURRENT@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> References: <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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* Jeffrey J. Mountin (jeff-ml@mountin.net) [000315 17:35]: > 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. Isn't there a CHECKSUMS.MD5 file in the directory where the ISO image is placed on the FTP site ? > Another issue is the size. Many factors determine how quickly one can > obtain the ISO. It would be nice if it were broken into smaller > volumes. About 10-20 MB each would be good. That way should something > fail, there less time and bandwidth wasted should one need to start over. It might be nice if there were a utility that could pull the ISO in small slices just like any distribution and then put it back together. For that matter, couldn't the ISO image be made into a distribution that sysinstall would understand ? To download it, you would : - run sysinstall - change the installation direction in the options dialog to match the one you want to download (4.0-RELEASE in this case) - select a custom distribution with just the "ISO image" dist - select "commit" sysinstall could then download the dist as many small chunks, and the "install" procedure would just be to glue the chunks back together and stick it in a known place on the HD. -- j. James FitzGibbon james@targetnet.com Targetnet.com Inc. Voice/Fax +1 416 306-0466/0452 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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