From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 13:53:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D9016A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0390E43D46 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 7B8F530884; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:53:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id D718B1D1E5A; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:53:17 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16416.6221.724933.7181@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:53:17 -0500 To: "Kevin Oberman" In-Reply-To: <20040203215017.143865D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <16416.4726.600088.834482@canoe.dclg.ca> <20040203215017.143865D07@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: 652 meg cd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:53:21 -0000 >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman writes: >> From: David Gilbert 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. 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@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================