From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 9:52:38 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 17BBF37B709 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA21317; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:49:37 -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 sma021315; Fri Mar 17 11:49:35 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000317114202.00a986e0@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 11:47:29 -0600 To: Will Andrews , Kelly Yancey From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000317101252.E404@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.com> 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 10:12 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:00:44AM -0500, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > This is all beginning to smell a lot like a FTP install. > >Exactly. Only thing is, an FTP install requires a usable internet >connection on intended box, which is not always available. ;-) Ah, but if it's available one time, then that time would be best spend pulling a local copy, which is much faster using local method (take your pick) to install further systems. This is a catch-22 situation and tinkering around with how the ISO can be had (stripped version or volumed) does nothing to solve. 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