I do have the isoboot boot code and some companion work ported over, so we can get hybrid iso files, but note, unfortunately it is not 100% universally supported. There are bios implementations choking on hybrid images... thats according to reports from FreeBSD.
Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Aug 2018, at 22:23, Till Wegmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > The Image itself is compressed. However not the USB part but the LOFI > File representing /usr on the Live system. > > What you compressed was the Sparse part of the image. I.e the Allocated > but not used USB Image Parts. > > As soon as we have the combined image that will be solved. > > What will help however Especially for people in the US is to pick a > local mirror. AFAIK the main Server is in the UK not US. > > > Greetings > Till > >> On 10.08.2018 19:22, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, John Howard wrote: >>> >>> Yesterday I downloaded the minimal USB. I am in USA, not Europe or Asia, >>> so I did not choose an alternative mirror for the download. Average >>> speed >>> was modem circa 1990 around 56 Kb/s. It took almost 3 hours. Okay, if >>> that is how it is now. >>> >>> The problem is, out of curiousity, I compressed the downloaded minimal >>> USB >>> file 25% using Zip. >>> Similar savings result for the 2 GiB Live USB down to 1.6 GiB. >> >> If the image is to be compressed, then it is likely that there is a >> popular compression algorithm (e.g. xz or 7zip) which is more effective >> than gzip. >> >> Bob > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
