Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:28:08PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> It has always worked for me. I use eroaster to burn CDs, and (for no
> appaent reason) the Knoppix iso image fits on a 700 MB CD. There is a
> feature in eroaster (which is just a frontend anyway) which allows
> "over burning". I guess it has something to do with this option.
Actually, it has more to do with the fact that the metric system gets
weird with computers. Kilo, mega, giga, etc are working off base 2
instead of base 10 numbering. This means a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a
megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and 715,000,000 bytes is 698.2 MB, not 715
MB.
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