Subject: Re: 1.5.1 iso images now available
To: Todd Vierling , Chris Rupnik <chrisr@beosppc.org>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/26/2001 17:54:16
At 8:42 PM -0400 7/26/01, Todd Vierling wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Chris Rupnik wrote:
>
>: Since we are asking, can you include a TGZ of the kernel source in there as
>: well?
>
>Probably not in the single-arch ISOs on ftp.netbsd.org, as these images are
>already rather large for the FTP servers (and would grow obnoxiously if the
>kernel source were embedded in each).
>
>If, in the future, I manage to get some acceptance of the "expack" FTP
>filter for generating images from a shrunk form on-the-fly, I could add
>this.

I have mixed feelings about this.  I'd like the source code.  I'd 
also like the images to be smaller so the don't take so long to 
download via modem.


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu