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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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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
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