From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 6:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.datais.com (mail.targetnet.com [207.245.246.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F4537BAEA for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@targetnet.com) Received: from james by mail.datais.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 12VxlN-000BVX-00; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:30:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:30:05 -0500 From: James FitzGibbon To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Kai Voigt , Matt Heckaman , Arnout Boer , FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com> References: <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> Organization: Targetnet.com Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * 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