From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 11:59:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.uunet.ca (mail4.uunet.ca [209.167.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B5437C1E1 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail4.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <208250-15447>; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:59:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:59:30 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Matthew Hunt Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <20000316112442.A21205@wopr.caltech.edu> 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 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 : To: Jeffrey J. Mountin : 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 * 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