Re: sarge first i386 CD musings
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:07:13AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
>
>Whilst a random purchase at anyone's local store is still likely to come
>up with 74 minute CDs, the Debian images should stick to that size to
>maximize availability. (We don't want yet another "Why can't I make a
>working Debian CD?" question added to the list.), but equally there's no
>point in sticking to the old limit once it becomes obsolete. It isn't
>obsolete yet but it will be in (I would estimate) less than a year. The
>question wants revisiting in, say, 6 months and once the 74s are gone
>then the image size should be increased.
Hmmm. There are a lot of older CD drives out there that don't like 80
minute media, so I deliberately keep a stock of 74-minute discs for
these people.
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