Am 2008-03-02 20:19:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > Assuming that the person intended to send that much data (pictures) via > the network, and that the person can't create a tarball, what's the > problem with an 18GB zip file? Its dos's version of a tarball. > > iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they > were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time.
Do you have tried to compress an ISO image full of Debian-Packages?
The Debian packages are already compressed using -9
and you can not do more compression on it.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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