Red Hat 7.2. compressed ISO

IgD · 03-11-2002, 05:25 PM

I've been trying to download the Red Hat 7.2 ISO's from ftp.redhat.com. They are huge. I'm wondering why Red Hat did not compress these files with something like ZIP or RAR? That should make a huge difference in the file size and guarantee CRC check. Is there any place you can download the ISO's in a compressed format?

acid_kewpie · 03-11-2002, 05:40 PM

an iso is a cd image, and can't really be compressed, especially as 98% of the contents of the cd's are RPM's, and thus already contain compressed data.

finegan · 03-11-2002, 07:06 PM

Like Kewp said, the additional compression would only knock back the image size to something on the order of 80% of the original size, meanwhile adding in a huge chance of toasting the image in transfer. I know this because I tried to do it with Slack 8 once.

Offhand the only Unix I know of that compresses their ISOs with ZIP is Sun's Solaris.

Cheers,

Finegan