Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:44:39 -0500 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: James FitzGibbon <james@targetnet.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317094439.B64447@ecto.greenpeas.org> In-Reply-To: <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com>; from james@targetnet.com on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:30:05AM -0500 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> <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com>
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Out of the ether, James FitzGibbon spewed forth the following bits: > 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 ? This would be a GREAT use for a multicast "data fountain". Just continuously have the "next segment" of the iso image spewed out to a given multicast address. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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