From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 17 16: 1:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2331737B557 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p39-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.104]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id JAA09646; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 09:00:53 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38D2C6DF.4186231B@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:59:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Robinson Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Luigi Rizzo , Sheldon Hearn , Arnout Boer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To ALL PEOPLE complaining about the size: Paul Robinson wrote: > > If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere > in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to > your broadband... :) If you don't want to download 650 Mb, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE ISO IMAGE!!! Download the two 1.44 Mb floppy disk images, and INSTALL FROM FTP. You'll get to select what bits you want, and thus save A LOT of time. Why ISO images, then? Because some people download these images from work/university, where they have broadband access, to install them at home. For these people, the darned 20 Mb out of 650 won't matter. This is a classic case of much ado about nothing. Go take reality check pills, everyone. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message