[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Moinak Ghosh]

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
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> 2007/6/15, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com 
> <mailto:binarycrusader at gmail.com>>:
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>     > b) forget about zipping the image
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>     Its perfectly reasonable to compress the image and saves bandwidth
>     and time.
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> Nope it's not, to unzip, you need to waste almost the double space in 
> the local hard disk, sometimes, if you run out of space, it's really 
> painful to unzip it (or impossible). DVD images are not small, and you 
> don't save that much bandwith since most of the DVDs are packages 
> already compressed.

   Zipping reduces the DVD size by 200+MB. You can reduce disk space 
usage to
   minimum by doing the following:

   unzip -p segment1.zip > solarisdvd.iso
   rm segment1.zip
   unzip -p segment2.zip >> solarisdvd.iso
   rm segment2.zip
   ...
   ...

Regards,
Moinak.