On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote:
>
> They are images of compressed files anyway. rpms are very much compressed and
> additional compression on them in my experience has led to corruption.
>
> Civileme
Ahh - I wasn't entirely sure if RPM's were already compressed or not. That
explains thing
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
>
> --
> Phil Edwards
> Technical Specialist
>
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
>
Ok. Say you compress it to 500 megs (just a figure I pi
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
no way, or it isn't that good. think: mo
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> > there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> > compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker dow
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
>
Yes they generaly get just get bigger, as all
Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
--
Phil Edwards
Technical Specialist
