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

Lou Katz lou at metron.com
Tue Jun 1 10:49:04 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:43:00PM +0300, Gilad Rom wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:32, 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. :-)
> > 
> > Colin Percival
> > 
> 
> Funny. And I didn't even know they're still making 3" CD's ;)

But they do make 3" DVD blanks.

> 
> Gilad Rom
> 
> 
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