Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Steven Harms]

Since this discussion is all about people without dvd drives, at what point
do we assume they have enough processing power to decompress the image
hundreds of times per session?  I mean if they don't have a dvd drive, then
they probably have < 256MB of ram, so when things are swapped in and out of
ram massive decompressing will occur, and again the same goes with their
processing power.


On 9/26/06, Christian Leber <christian at leber.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> > No, because the desktop CD does not contain any packages -- it's
> > installed by copying a filesys
>
> It's using squashfs and it's no problem to use squashfs with lzma
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 ijuz ijuz  732942336 Dec  9 19:18 KNOPPIX_V3.7-
> 2004-12-08-DE.iso
> -rw-r--r--   1 ijuz ijuz  708526080 Jan 10 15:47
> knoppix-3.7_squashfs_0.2.iso
> -rw-r--r--   1 ijuz ijuz  638318592 Feb  6 02:52 knoppix_lzma_v0.2.iso
>
> that was last year and as you can see the saving is about 9%.
> (a better gzip compression was used for knoppix-3.7_squashfs_0.2.iso,
> when ubuntu is using the normal mksquashfs it's saving more)
>
>
> Christian Leber
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