Re: sarge first i386 CD musings
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:29:34PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> >Ohh. Hmm. And just as I rm'ed the generated .iso I had mounted to see if
> >the image was all right (and under 650 MB -- it was 641). Oh well, I'll
> >do it again.
BTW, that worked out. The files are there.
> Just a quick question: in Hungary it is impossible to buy a 74 minutes
> writable CD (650 MB) even in CD-RW version. The "default" is now 700
> MB/80 min. with strange capacities emerging (like the 1 GB CD-R, I don't
> know how well can one store data on them, also I wouldn't place my life
> on a CD which were written at 52X speed, but that's another story).
>
> So why should a CD be under 650 MB these days?
I bought some 650 MB CD-RWs a few months back, FWIW. I guess there's not
much reason to scramble with those extra 50 MB, you can hardly save one in
the set by making them all 700 MB.
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