In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Blars Blarson writes: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>(5) Download the ISO : a burden on servers, even with mirrors, and to be >>avoided in preference to (3) or (4) if you -must- have CDs. > >One question I have about the whole pseudo-image thing: how does it >save bandwith on a system that has no debian packages available? All >I can see it doing is getting most of the bytes from the debian >package mirrors, then the rest of them from an rsync server. (And >creating the null blocks between packages locally.) If the null blocks >are realy a significant part of the iso image, wouldn't compressing it >with gzip make more sense than trying to get people to use overly >complicated instructions to assemple multple pesices from several >different sites, with a fair number of duplicated and overhead bytes >cause by the whole pseudo-image process?
It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync just blends the downloaded packages into a iso-compatible image. Most of that process is the iso munging, not null blocks. -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
