>NT machine at work. On downloading, Internet Explorer was telling me I was
>downloading the 12.5 Meg file at about 62kbps. Totally impossible since we
>only have 2 channels of a T1 for data. I just ignored it thinking Explorer
>wasn't reporting the proper speed or file size. But, when I was done, the
>kernel was sitting in a folder and taking up 52 Megs of space! I later
>burned the kernel (and a whole lot of other stuff) to a CD-ROM and the
>kernel was still taking up 52 megs of space. Did I do something wrong
here?
Do you have WinZip or something like it on that machine?
What's happening is that the kernel source, archived as a tar.gz file, is
being uncompressed to a tar file. Same thing happens to me.
