Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:59:23 +0200 (CEST)
Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
> That is true only in the technical sense. I.e., the spec sheet for my
> laptop says it has a 20GB harddrive (and in 2 pt. font, at the bottom,
> they define a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes). So, in the technical sense, my
> drive is only 18.6 GB (20e9/1024^3). Leave it up to the marketing types
> to cloud the issue.
Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a
gibibyte:
http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=340&PHPSESSID=cc5d94e5ff669af1a325ba1d5196c985
Kevin
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