Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

[Oliver Fromme]

Alexander Langer wrote in list.freebsd-current:
 > Thus spake Don 'Duck' Harper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 > > fires up XFree86's VGA server.  And it fits all this on one floppy.  They
 > > do have two floppies, one for local CD/disk installs, and another for
 > > NFS/FTP/HTTP/SMB installs.
 > > So, I know it can be done.  Is it worth the effort?  I donno.
 > 
 > Maybe they gzip the binaries and gunzip them into MFS before using
 > them.
 > 
 > gunzip has approx 106 kb, but you save about 50% per executeable.

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4648 Jan 28  1999 /usr/bin/minigzip

Regards
   Oliver

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