From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 9:51:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695F637BBFE for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA21307; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:44:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-65.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.65) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma021305; Fri Mar 17 11:44:05 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000317113316.00b26100@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:41:57 -0600 To: Will Andrews From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Cc: FreeBSD Current In-Reply-To: <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> <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"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:46 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > 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. > >MD5 checksums are more compact and much cooler. Yes and my not knowing about them shows how often I look in the ISO dirs and those times that I do, the upload was in progress, so there was no checksum. ;) >Ever heard of 'reget'? Certainly. Tastes great, less filling. > > Call me a disinterested 3rd party. Never pull the ISO, only the parts > > needed. ;) > >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). That would duplicate work done already. If you want a stripped-down ISO, then burn your own from the distribution or take it a step further and make your own release. Come on folks! If you can't pull down the ISO, just buy the damn thing. You then get 4 CDs and save a lot of time and hassle. Regretting I ever made suggestions... Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message