From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 17:12:58 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 9CC4B16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D6043D1F for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 66799 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Feb 2004 01:12:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 4 Feb 2004 01:12:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4020468F.20800@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:10:39 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert References: <16416.4726.600088.834482@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <16416.4726.600088.834482@canoe.dclg.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org 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: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:12:58 -0000 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