Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:06:38 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3" CD-R Message-ID: <200406011906.38864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040601102920.02e2faa8@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <20040601073740.GB5854@nevermind.kiev.ua> <200406011749.45666.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <6.1.0.6.1.20040601102920.02e2faa8@popserver.sfu.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:02, Colin Percival wrote: > At 09:19 01/06/2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >miniinst isn't meant for small CD's, it's just meant to be smaller than the > >full disk. > > > >Would be nice to shave that 8Mb off though :) > > No it wouldn't. If we make it fit now, then we'll be struggling to > make it continue to fit for years into the future. (Just look at the > floppy disk situation.) > Much better just to accept that it doesn't fit onto a 3" CD-R and > move on. :-) Heh, fair point. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAvE4m5ZPcIHs/zowRAr+UAKCVw38SCaqm9V9KKzsOXF3ZuylV1wCfaswp 1wwnDy/8o+LlVLcyiXboNvU= =5RW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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