From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 16:21:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8325937B954; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.198]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00708; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09682; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA20477; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:38 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <200003160021.QAA20477@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:21:37 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Kris Kennaway , Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Cc: Kai Voigt , Matt Heckaman , Arnout Boer , FreeBSD-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 15, 9:03am, Kris Kennaway wrote: } Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? } 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 This doesn't allow you to restart a failed transfer, which you might want to be able to do if it takes two or three days to transfer the entire file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message