Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?
On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:10:48 +0100
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> Tom used to get 1.7MB on a 1.44MB
> floppy,
If you mean Tom's rootboot, tomsrtbt: he got some of that "compression"
by adding extra tracks beyond the 1.44MB. It is also possible to add an
extra sector per track. (But not all floppy drives supported those extra
tracks and sectors gracefully or at all.) That got 1.7 MB out of a
1.44MB diskette. I don't know if he did compression on top of that.
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