>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net> writes: >> From: David Gilbert <dgilbert_at_dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 >> 16:28:22 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org >> >> Heh. I don't know if this is actually for -STABLE yet... what's >> the judgement on that? But 5.2.1-RC disk 1 is a 652 meg ISO. Now >> I know that we're arguing about disk sizes again here ... and that >> most cds are 700 M, but the cd-rw's I have around are only 650 M. Kevin> Unlike most hard drives (and I think DVDs), CDs are in real Kevin> MBs. As a result, you can write about 68 bytes to a standard CD Kevin> and about 737 million bytes to a "700 MB" CD. (I put that in Kevin> quotation marks because they are really 703 MD without Kevin> overburn.) Kevin> The current CDs should fit comfortably on and standard CD. -- Well... They don't fit on a 650 M "standard" CD. They current image is 672 million bytes-ish. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave_at_daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 12:53:21 UTC
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