Re: 652 meg cd?

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:10:39 -0700
David Gilbert wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Dave.
> 

Let me check my math again....


 > ls -la 5.2.1-RC-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 scottl  archive  672792576 Jan 31 20:05 
5.2.1-RC-i386-disc1.iso
 > dc
672792576
1024 / p
657024
1024 / p
641


That is to say that the image is 641MB, where a MB == MegaByte ==
1024 * 1024 bytes.  This is the standard way that CD capacities are
measured.  If your initial starting size is different from was I
just pasted in, then you might want to check the MD5 and verify that
what you have (or where you got it from) is not corrupt.

Scott
Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 16:12:58 UTC

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