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

Gilad Rom gilad_bsd at romat.com
Tue Jun 1 11:33:15 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 20:47, Lou Katz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well that's actually useful.




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