Would it truly be a LiveCD (as opposed to LiveDVD) if it doesn't fit on a CD? :) It was that semi-misnomer that made me assume I could burn it to a CD in the first place. Of course, I didn't check the size before I started, and only discovered it when I tried to burn. The reason this matters is because I was burning the CD for the x64 machine on an older machine with only CD-RW, because the x64 machine has no operating system... Matthew On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:45:21 +0530, "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Matthew Curry wrote: > > I'm sure this has already been called to your attention, but I will > > email anyway. > > > > It appears that the x86 LiveCD ISOs have been maximized in size so that > > they can _just_ fit on a standard CD. However, the x64 ISOs simply > > contain the same packages with the different arch, but are larger > > (presumably due to compatibility libraries, binary size, and such). > > This makes them too large to fit on a single CD. > > Yes. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ. They are live images > and due to multilib support by default that x86_64 images are larger. > The rationale is that x86_64 are likely to be affected if we remove > multilib and those systems are likely to be more recent and hence have a > DVD drive. > > There has been some recent discussions in fedora-desktop list about > changing this. > > Rahul
