Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)
In article <[🔎] 3BC71357.7080504@ncmec.org> rkidd@ncmec.org writes:
>(5) Download the ISO : a burden on servers, even with mirrors, and to be
>avoided in preference to (3) or (4) if you -must- have CDs.
One question I have about the whole pseudo-image thing: how does it
save bandwith on a system that has no debian packages available? All
I can see it doing is getting most of the bytes from the debian
package mirrors, then the rest of them from an rsync server. (And
creating the null blocks between packages locally.) If the null blocks
are realy a significant part of the iso image, wouldn't compressing it
with gzip make more sense than trying to get people to use overly
complicated instructions to assemple multple pesices from several
different sites, with a fair number of duplicated and overhead bytes
cause by the whole pseudo-image process?
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