Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:37 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: 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: <200003160021.QAA20477@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150902430.75304-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150902430.75304-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mar 15, 9:03am, Kris Kennaway wrote: } Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? } On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: } } > I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably } > keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from } > a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo. } } fetch -o - ftp://path/to/iso.gz | gunzip -c - > /path/to/image.iso This doesn't allow you to restart a failed transfer, which you might want to be able to do if it takes two or three days to transfer the entire file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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