Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:37:05 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <200809042237.13436.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <48BFB564.2000802@unsane.co.uk> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080904085415.GG15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <48BFB564.2000802@unsane.co.uk>
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--nextPart1456481.6qY27hTzkz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Actually FreeBSD does support a compressed (read only) filesystem, > geom_uzip(4) This is used by freesbie if I remember rightly. > However it does mean you cannot just mount and browse the install cd > with the generic kernel, and I'd guess it bumps up the base system > requirements. You could, because geom_uzip is a module :) That said you _would_ duplicate things because what is on the live disk=20 is not in a form suitable for pkg_add'ing to the installed system. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1456481.6qY27hTzkz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIv92B5ZPcIHs/zowRAtOBAJ4+0PLPahqf0f9hJ+rC9FVrvoaPugCdGXXE dLfunCLTO5cZLwmB+/5c+YQ= =vvj0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1456481.6qY27hTzkz--
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