At 09:46 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> > However, if you consider the size of the file and the possibility of
> > corruption, then it should be archived with gzip and forget the
> compression
> > (gzip -1). Now it can be checked for errors.
>
>MD5 checksums are more compact and much cooler.
Yes and my not knowing about them shows how often I look in the ISO dirs
and those times that I do, the upload was in progress, so there was no
checksum. ;)
>Ever heard of 'reget'?
Certainly. Tastes great, less filling.
> > Call me a disinterested 3rd party. Never pull the ISO, only the parts
> > needed. ;)
>
>I tend to agree with this. 650MB is way too much - perhaps the images could
>be broken up according to the portion of the system (i.e., bin, sbin,
>usr.bin, usr.sbin, etc, et cetera).
That would duplicate work done already. If you want a stripped-down ISO,
then burn your own from the distribution or take it a step further and make
your own release.
Come on folks! If you can't pull down the ISO, just buy the damn
thing. You then get 4 CDs and save a lot of time and hassle.
Regretting I ever made suggestions...
Jeff Mountin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems/Network Administrator
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