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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:08 +0100
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        "Don 'Duck' Harper" <duck@duckland.org>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?
Message-ID:  <19991215163608.A4358@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org>; from duck@duckland.org on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:04:21PM -0600
References:  <38571717.F25976F7@newsguy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org>

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Thus spake Don 'Duck' Harper (duck@duckland.org):

> fires up XFree86's VGA server.  And it fits all this on one floppy.  They
> do have two floppies, one for local CD/disk installs, and another for
> NFS/FTP/HTTP/SMB installs.
> So, I know it can be done.  Is it worth the effort?  I donno.

Maybe they gzip the binaries and gunzip them into MFS before using
them.

gunzip has approx 106 kb, but you save about 50% per executeable.

Alex

-- 
I doubt, therefore I might be. 


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