Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI
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 Aug 2018, at 22:23, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > 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 however Especially for people in the US is to pick a > local mirror. AFAIK the main Server is in the UK not US. > > > Greetings > Till > >> On 10.08.2018 19:22, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> 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 problem is, out of curiousity, I compressed the downloaded minimal >>> USB >>> file 25% using Zip. >>> Similar savings result for the 2 GiB Live USB down to 1.6 GiB. >> >> If the image is to be compressed, then it is likely that there is a >> popular compression algorithm (e.g. xz or 7zip) which is more effective >> than gzip. >> >> Bob > > ___ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI
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 however Especially for people in the US is to pick a local mirror. AFAIK the main Server is in the UK not US. Greetings Till On 10.08.2018 19:22, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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 problem is, out of curiousity, I compressed the downloaded minimal >> USB >> file 25% using Zip. >> Similar savings result for the 2 GiB Live USB down to 1.6 GiB. > > If the image is to be compressed, then it is likely that there is a > popular compression algorithm (e.g. xz or 7zip) which is more effective > than gzip. > > Bob ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI
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 problem is, out of curiousity, I compressed the downloaded minimal USB file 25% using Zip. Similar savings result for the 2 GiB Live USB down to 1.6 GiB. If the image is to be compressed, then it is likely that there is a popular compression algorithm (e.g. xz or 7zip) which is more effective than gzip. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
[oi-dev] Please Zip compress the USB downloads from OI
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 downloaded minimal USB file 25% using Zip. Similar savings result for the 2 GiB Live USB down to 1.6 GiB. It would be great if OI stopped releasing separate USB images from now on anyhow. I recall that Toomas in April was building a hybrid ISO for USB. Can we just go forward with that solution, compressed of course? Thanks for your work. -- John ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
