According to Isaacson, Scott D.: While burning my CPU.
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> Hello everyone!
>
> I ran into a problem last night (I think) trying to download the new kernel.
> I was going to update my home machine and had to download the kernel to my
> 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?
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> I could try downloading it to one of the linux machines here, but I'm
> curious as to why downloading the kernel is so weird on my NT machine.
> Repeated attempts to download (always with IE4) have always resulted in
> downloading a "52 Meg" kernel.
>
> Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
At a guess, explorer is unpacking the file for you, or changing its format
to Winzip or whatever its called.
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> Thanks,
> Scott.
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Regards Richard.
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