[ILUG] compressed iso's

[Waider]

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Dick Dietrich wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Why is it that only a few linux distro's supply compressed iso's and
| does anyone know where i can get a compressed iso of mandrake 9.0. In my
| experience ISO's can be made as small as 80-90M under compression. Is
| the same thing true of linux ISO's?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Paddy

Given that the RPM format already includes compression (at least, I'm
pretty sure the archive portion of an RPM file is, in fact, a compressed
cpio archive), I don't know how much more compression you'd get over the
existing files. Have a look:

[root at localhost RPMS]# ls -l kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm
- -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     12631834 Sep 24 12:08
kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm
[root at localhost RPMS]# gzip -9 kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm
[root at localhost RPMS]# ls -l kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm.gz
- -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     12490081 Sep 24 12:08
kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.3.i686.rpm.gz

Cheers,
Waider.
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