From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Replica - just a thought. Message-ID: <20040219152304.D3055@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20040210124725.K17981@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Prem Mallappa on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:27:52AM +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:23:04 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed9b4390-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.