652 meg cd?

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> writes:

>> From: David Gilbert <dgilbert at dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004
>> 16:28:22 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>> 
>> 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.

Kevin> Unlike most hard drives (and I think DVDs), CDs are in real
Kevin> MBs. As a result, you can write about 68 bytes to a standard CD
Kevin> and about 737 million bytes to a "700 MB" CD. (I put that in
Kevin> quotation marks because they are really 703 MD without
Kevin> overburn.)

Kevin> The current CDs should fit comfortably on and standard CD.  --

Well... They don't fit on a 650 M "standard" CD.  They current image
is 672 million bytes-ish.

Dave.

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