4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3" CD-R

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Jun 1 02:36:59 PDT 2004


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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.

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