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Re: CD sizes, Packages and Sources



On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:07:05AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>tom.condon@convergys.com writes:
>
>> Is there a type of removable media, CDs or DVDs, available to create and
>> store images of existing PCs and their data that would exceed 2 or 3 Gig of
>> data? Could this amount of data be stored on a single disc that would be
>> bootable and mobile to an end user? Thanks
>
>Dual layer DVDs are ~9.3GB size.

No, 8.5GB (as in 8.5*10^9 bytes, not 8.5*2^30 bytes)...

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