From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Replica - just a thought.
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219152304.D3055@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.02.19.07.17.47.753384@hotpop.com>; from Prem Mallappa on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:27:52AM +0000
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:27:52AM +0000, Prem Mallappa wrote:
>
> Is there any way that i can get this CD ( download????)
>
If you're after the "dump9660" image, no, I don't think it's even
remotely practical to serve such a large image as web-retrievable. I
think it shrinks down to well over 100 Meg with bzip2, but even that
is too large to distribute.
Sorry about that.
++L
>
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:48:32 +0000, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> > This is probably boring _and_ ignorant, but maybe just once I've
> > hit on a good idea. You be the judge.
> >
> > I've been downloading a fresh Plan 9 image weekly, religiously
> > adding it to a 9660 "dump" image that has now grown to a little
> > less than 500 megabytes. When I get an opportunity, I burn the
> > dump image onto a rewritable CD and so I have a little bit of
> > development history that may come in handy one day.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-10 10:47 Lucio De Re
2004-02-10 11:14 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-10 11:28 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-10 12:00 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-10 12:25 ` Lucio De Re
2004-02-19 10:27 ` Prem Mallappa
2004-02-19 11:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-19 13:23 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
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