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Re: DVD?



On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

>Le Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:55:18PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
>> I'm not suggesting DVD be the only way we distribute, just an option. For
>> a long time now multi-CD games have been coming with 4-5CD's and 1 DVD,
>> partially it seeds the market for drives, and it really only costs the
>> vendor 0.70$ !
>
>Well for building DVD images it's not really a problem since the debian-cd
>script does take as an argument the size limit of the media (that's why
>debian-cd can be used to create CD with some free space or images for
>ZIP or whatever media you'd like to use) ... do DVD also use iso9660 fs ?

AFAIK not, but they could be made to. A problem here is size, though -
32-bit Linux will struggle to cope with an image file big enough to fill a
DVD.

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