Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI

2018-08-10 Thread Toomas Soome via oi-dev
I do have the isoboot boot code and some companion work ported over, so we can get hybrid iso files, but note, unfortunately it is not 100% universally supported. There are bios implementations choking on hybrid images... thats according to reports from FreeBSD. Sent from my iPhone > On 10

Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI

2018-08-10 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hi The Image itself is compressed. However not the USB part but the LOFI File representing /usr on the Live system. What you compressed was the Sparse part of the image. I.e the Allocated but not used USB Image Parts. As soon as we have the combined image that will be solved. What will help

Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI

2018-08-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, John Howard wrote: Yesterday I downloaded the minimal USB. I am in USA, not Europe or Asia, so I did not choose an alternative mirror for the download. Average speed was modem circa 1990 around 56 Kb/s. It took almost 3 hours. Okay, if that is how it is now. The

[oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI

2018-08-10 Thread John Howard
Yesterday I downloaded the minimal USB. I am in USA, not Europe or Asia, so I did not choose an alternative mirror for the download. Average speed was modem circa 1990 around 56 Kb/s. It took almost 3 hours. Okay, if that is how it is now. The problem is, out of curiousity, I compressed the