On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:47:57AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > bzip2 decompression, which is a free block-sorting algorithm that > > yields smaller files than gzip at the expense of some extra time and > > memory. > Be careful. Although the time is probably not a matter even for older > machines, overly memory usage can kill an install on low-memory machines.
Correct. bzip2 is unusable (even for decompression) on small machines, even under Linux, and it's not exactly pleasant even with 32Mb on a busy system. If you're installing off CD, gzip compresses plenty well enough. Linux as an install system sounds like a great idea to me---I did a test install of Hurd using the tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net) single-floppy Linux system. It would be relatively trivial to modify tomsrtbt to work as a Hurd installer. -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
