Compression of freebsd iso images

Alexander Yerenkow yerenkow at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 21:00:17 UTC 2013


2013/2/7 nmz <khwerz at gmail.com>

> this saves bandwidth which is of course precious in third world countries
> and so on (not to mention places with caps)
>
> An Example:
>  FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
>   ISO   -- 150M
>   7z    -- 40M
>   gzip  -- 56M
>

please try also xz and xz -9e


>
> maybe this could be an extra option? if it is a hassle.
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Alexander Yerenkow


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