From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 6:44:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (networkoperations.com [209.42.203.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00EC637BB4D for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abc@firehouse.net) Received: (qmail 64539 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Mar 2000 14:44:39 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:44:39 -0500 From: Alan Clegg To: James FitzGibbon Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317094439.B64447@ecto.greenpeas.org> 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> <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000317093005.A41950@targetnet.com>; from james@targetnet.com on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:30:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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