From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 11:42:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 7582537B718; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734E62E8154; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:42:43 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Will Andrews Cc: Kelly Yancey , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <20000317101252.E404@argon.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > Exactly. Only thing is, an FTP install requires a usable internet > connection on intended box, which is not always available. ;-) No it doesn't. Download the binary installation files onto another machine, and burn a CD with them (you must have a mechanism to burn a CD if you were intending to burn an ISO image of one). Then use this CD as the media to get the distribution bits from. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message