Re: [Cooker] ISO images - is a binary diff file possible ??

[stephen]

Is it relevant as to how the two data streams are compressed, we are
interested in compressing the difference stream.

might be to a pure maths type person, bit beyond mine

howabout

xdelta delta -9 beta3.iso rc1.iso beta_2_rc1_upgrade.gz

assuming xdelta can handle 640M files ;-)

it's been trundling along upstairs for about 10hrs, but its
a p2-233 128M so it could take awhile.

perhaps someone else could take a crack at it as well

i tried it yesterday with 100M off the front of each iso, but
can't remember the size of the result file. i stopped it in order
to go for delta'ing the lot.

i wouldn't have done that if the size wasn't quite small,
maybe 30M

if you were tracking mandrake, had pulled the first beta,
and had the choice of another 640M or 150M download and 'patching' ??


Stephen R Parkinson