From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 9:24: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9115137BF6C for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D80CB3E; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:22:58 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.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> <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:43:36 +0100 To: Will Andrews , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Cc: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:46 AM -0500 2000/3/17, Will Andrews wrote: > I tend to agree with this. 650MB is way too much - perhaps the images could > be broken up according to the portion of the system (i.e., bin, sbin, > usr.bin, usr.sbin, etc, et cetera). I think the entire point of the ISO images is to make it as easy as possible for people to burn an exact replica of the CDs that you would get if you bought the package from WC, and for people like this bandwidth is not an issue. For people that don't have the bandwidth, they should use other install methods. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message