From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 14: 1:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E68037B586 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 683A01C4A; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:01:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:01:49 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , Kelly Yancey , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317170149.F25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000317101252.E404@argon.blackdawn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:42:43AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:42:43AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > No it doesn't. > > Download the binary installation files onto another machine, and burn a CD > with them (you must have a mechanism to burn a CD if you were intending to > burn an ISO image of one). Then use this CD as the media to get the > distribution bits from. If our intent was to make installation a living hell, then yes this an excellent idea. An ISO is a single file to download / burn and is the most straightforward way of making your installation media. Everyone from the guru to the warez monkey understands burning an ISO. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message