Warren Young wrote: > devel wrote: >> Why the images are not compressed? > > Because RPMs are compressed already, and almost everything on a CentOS > install disk is an RPM. > > I tried compressing the bin DVD here with bzip2 -9 and saw a size > improvement of less than 3%. The cost of this tiny benefit is 2x the > disk space during the decompression step, and half an hour of > decompression time on a 3 GHz machine. but it only has to be compressed once, whereas it gets to be download hundreds of thousands of times. Running mkzftree on the non-rpm and non preboot stuff might make some sense. Makes it had to read in winders tho. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list