Till Wegmüller writes: > They actually are already compressed. Just not wrapped into a compressed > archive. Both the USB and ISO files are just a container for the > compressed files. for e.g. solaris.zlib or the Boot Archive. These > Compressed files will be decompressed on load by the Boot loader or OS > respectively. > > On 31.10.18 04:33, John Howard wrote: > > The USB files should be compressed for downloads to save gigabytes of > > bandwidth.
I just did a test on the .usb files using pbzip2: OI-hipster-gui-20181023.usb 1.9G OI-hipster-gui-20181023.usb.bz2 1.5G OI-hipster-minimal-20181023.usb 486M OI-hipster-minimal-20181023.usb.bz2 360M OI-hipster-text-20181023.usb 845M OI-hipster-text-20181023.usb.bz2 661M John is absolutely right. The numbers speak for themselves. :-) Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
