From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 9: 3:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000D537BA2D; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA53812; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:48 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Kai Voigt , Matt Heckaman , Arnout Boer , FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably > keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from > a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo. fetch -o - ftp://path/to/iso.gz | gunzip -c - > /path/to/image.iso Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message