Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:59:30 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161459040.89412-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000316112442.A21205@wopr.caltech.edu>
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Speaking of ISOs, where is the 4.0-RELEASE ISO, I need it to do up this machine which I wanna format and install 4.0 clean =/ Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: : Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:24:42 -0500 : From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> : To: Jeffrey J. Mountin <jeff-ml@mountin.net> : Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG : Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? : : On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: : : > >Also take into account that many people are downloading and : > >recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip : > >by default. : > : > And then they can xfer it over to their FBSD system, etc.. : : You're suggesting that folks who burn CDs in order to install : FreeBSD should have a FreeBSD machine handy? : : (Blah, anyway. This is a silly discussion. Why are people who : are bandwidth-starved downloading ISOs in the first place?) : : -- : Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. : http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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