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Old 07-12-2010, 06:29 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn View Post
I believe the OP is talking about, say, a .tar.gz or .zip archive with a Linux ISO image in it. I was wondering if such a download did exist myself as well.
That's the way I first understood it, too, and I would also be interested.

It probably would take less time to decompress than download those huge things!
 
Old 07-12-2010, 06:32 AM   #17
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I have only seen parted magic iso in zip format but it does not save much. Zip is 93 MB and iso is 94.something MB
 
  


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