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This is normal since rpm are already compressed! so
you will compress only a part of the CD enficiently .
so it doesn't do miraculous compression for
mandrake iso .
bnut diff between version could do it
(?)
example diff beta4 ->rc1
Meir Faraj
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:32
AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Faster download
?
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
Hallo!
I've downloaded Linuxin, a Debian based 1 CD spanish distro
(http://linuxin.paislinux.net/). Here's md5sum's
file:
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620a0bb7696bf55f3a143220a8853002 ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso
16b9e54036cfd50458f649cb4907721b ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso.bz2
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First is the mentioned ISO. It's 698Mb...
And second is the same ISO but it's been bzipped: 250Mb... it's taken near 3
times less to download than a normal ISO.
Wouldn't it be possible that the ISOs were (also) bzipped ? They'll take much
less download time 8-?
I've tried compressing isos (I think redhat and mandrake ISOs) in the past
and they rarely become more than a few megs smaller. I suspect it just
depends exactly what is on the CD and how well compressed those things
are. Can anyone test with a modern mandrake ISO?
Yes, done for First CD !
Results
...
Before:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mantis
mantis 729153536 sep 2 15:19
MandrakeLinux-9.0rc1-CD1.i586.iso
After:
-rw-r--r--
1 mantis mantis 672619543 sep 2 15:19
MandrakeLinux-9.0rc1-CD1.i586.iso.bz2
Not really miraculous
!
mantis.
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