Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:50:17 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 652 meg cd? Message-ID: <20040203215017.143865D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> <16416.4726.600088.834482@canoe.dclg.ca>
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> From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:28:22 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@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. Unlike most hard drives (and I think DVDs), CDs are in real MBs. As a result, you can write about 68 bytes to a standard CD and about 737 million bytes to a "700 MB" CD. (I put that in quotation marks because they are really 703 MD without overburn.) The current CDs should fit comfortably on and standard CD. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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