From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 8:29:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46B51503B for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01525 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:24:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:24:24 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912151624.RAA01525@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Langer wrote in list.freebsd-current: > 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. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4648 Jan 28 1999 /usr/bin/minigzip Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message