Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:49:21PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>Does bzip2 really buy us that much more space than >>gzip in this case? > > ... saves us 50-60K of space on 1.44MB floppies. People still use 1.44MB floppies? I don't even have floppy drives in my PCs anymore. Perhaps it's time to demote the boot floppies to second-class status. People who can't boot from CD-ROM don't need driver support for the newest, fanciest hardware in the installation kernel. For people that are using boot floppies to avoid downloading the CD-ROMs, maybe a "mini-boot CD" is a better choice. You can fit a lot more onto a 5MB CDROM than onto a pair of 1.44MB floppies. TimReceived on Sat Apr 26 2003 - 10:23:55 UTC
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