[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Shawn Walker]

On 15/06/07, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz at gnome.org> wrote:
> 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.

You forget that not all users have unlimited bandwidth. For example,
almost *all* bandwidth in Australia is metered. I'm very much *NOT*
annoyed when I don't waste an extra 200MB of my monthly bandwidth
allocation.

Please don't think with such a US/Korea/etc. centric view.

Bandwidth is not "free" for everyone.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/