On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:07:13AM +0100, John Winters wrote: > > > >Whilst a random purchase at anyone's local store is still likely to come > >up with 74 minute CDs, the Debian images should stick to that size to > >maximize availability. (We don't want yet another "Why can't I make a > >working Debian CD?" question added to the list.), but equally there's no > >point in sticking to the old limit once it becomes obsolete. It isn't > >obsolete yet but it will be in (I would estimate) less than a year. The > >question wants revisiting in, say, 6 months and once the 74s are gone > >then the image size should be increased. > > Hmmm. There are a lot of older CD drives out there that don't like 80 > minute media, so I deliberately keep a stock of 74-minute discs for > these people. > > We've been using 80min cds exclusively now for approx 18 months and havent had a single customer complain that their drive cant read them becasue they can only read 74 min.
Unless - it is not a problem using a 80 min cd with only 74min capacity used in one of these old drives. The most bizaar set at the moment is the ppc i386 r1 set where cd 7 has only 10mb of data. Brian Teeman www.debianshop.com www.cheeplinux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
