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.
> Another issue is the size. Many factors determine how quickly one can
> obtain the ISO. It would be nice if it were broken into smaller
> volumes. About 10-20 MB each would be good. That way should something
> fail, there less time and bandwidth wasted should one need to start over.
Ever heard of 'reget'?
> 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).
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