[Centos] ISO's and padding once again

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agreed

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:37 +0100, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> 
> 
>>Option (a) can be performed immediately by just adding a single line
>>(dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=150 >> file.iso) to the scripts used to 
>>create the iso/dvd images right after the anaconda implantation.
>>
> 
> 
> But this is a problem with cdrecord and not with iso generation.  How
> does this solution impact people who do not use cdrecord to make ISOs.
> There are many people who burn the ISOs with other programs (growfs,
> nero, roxio ezcd, and a dozen other windows or mac ISO recording
> programs.)
> 
> I'm not sure that we should put the extra items on the end of the file
> if it will adversely impact the other burning programs.
> 
> Any comments...
> 
> 
>>Option (b) is nice and should probably be done anyway (making -pad 
>>cdrecord option the default) but will take ages to spread and in the 
>>meantime cd burning problems will continue to plague us.
>>
> 
> 
> This option only impacts the user that uses cdrecord and doesn't impact
> other burning software.
> 
> 
>>Option (c) is also nice and should possibly be done, once we figure out 
>>how to determine how much padding the file contains (or just assume it's 
>>always 300KB since that's how much mkisofs adds?)
>>
>>Still, option (a) is best for now at least and would solve this problem 
>>once and for all.
> 
> 
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