[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/6/15, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com>:
>
> Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2007/6/15, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com
> > <mailto:binarycrusader at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >
> >
> >     > b) forget about zipping the image
> >
> >     Its perfectly reasonable to compress the image and saves bandwidth
> >     and time.
> >
> >
> > 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
>    ...
>    ...


Great, let's annoy users to save bandwidth.

Regards,
> Moinak.
>
>


-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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