On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:18:10PM -0800, Rick Flurer wrote:
> my understanding is that a formatted cd-RW disk will not
> hold anywhere near 650 MB of data. more like 500 MB if i recall correctly.
I *think* that is true if they have a UDF filesystem, like they get on
Windoze if you choose the option to put on a random-access filesystem.
When used for "ordinary" CD images I believe they have the same capacity.
Fred
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: CD-RWs
> > ABrady wrote:
> > >
> > > Something may be wrong with the sizes of the ISOs. I downloaded them and
> > > burned them onto ordinary, cheapo (.19) CDRs without a problem. I
> > > guarantee the CDRs aren't any sort of special, high-capacity media.
> > >
> > > You might want to verify the sizes and/or download again.
> >
> > Hrm . . . well this is odd. Here's my download dir listing:
> >
> > total 1299188
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 Stephen data 4096 Mar 11 16:58 .
> > drwxrwxr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 7 09:26 ..
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Stephen data 678203392 Mar 11 16:58
> wolverine-i386-disc1.iso
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Stephen data 650846208 Mar 11 19:50
> mwolverine-i386-disc2.iso
> >
> > And these sizes correspond exactly to what I'm seeing on RHat's FTP site.
> > Steve
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