[SATLUG] [OT] Apple dmg's compressible?

[Jeremy Mann]

Once its finished you could take out some of the individual PKG
package files until you drop to 700 megs, then burn 2 discs and
recombine them into the DMG on your home computer.

On 2/9/07, Bob Tracy <rct at gherkin.frus.com> wrote:
> Jeremy Mann wrote:
> > Bob, the DMG file is already compressed. Once you "open" the DMG for
> > the Xcode tools it comes out to about 1.5 gigs. You could try using
> > Stuffit to see if it will compress more, but doubtful.
>
> That's what I was afraid of, but if I had thought about it for two
> seconds I would have guessed the images were already compressed.
>
> Current status on the download: the speed had been considerably better
> at various points throughout the morning, occasionally reaching 200+
> KB/s.  Now, it's hovering somewhere around 50 KB/s, with a projected
> time to completion of approx. two hours.  I can live with that as long
> as it actually happens before I go home today :-).  As far as making
> things fit on a CD, there's nothing preventing me from splitting the
> image into multiple pieces for transport...  Funny how the obvious
> solution to the "no DVD" problem didn't seem obvious at the time.
>
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