On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:35:26PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > The image size is 1022 M. > > > > > > This is likely too big, remember drive manufacturers don't really use > > > units like KiB MiB or GiB - they use 1K = 1000, 1M = 1,000,000 and 1G = > > > 1,000,000,000 - e.g. the SI units. > > > > > > It seems to me that most 1GB USB keys have a size of 1GB = 1,000M = > > > 1,000,000,000 bytes. Some are 1024MB (1024,000,000,000 bytes), some may > > > be a bit smaller (e.g. "value-adds" like the Sandisk U3 "CD-ROM") while > > > some may actually be 1024 MiB (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). It varies. > > > > Moreover, the closer you get to the full size, the less space you'll > > have for any overlay. > > Good point. A quick search on the Internet suggests that 2GB sticks can > be had for < $10. So maybe we should just bite the bullet and target 2GB > keys and do a 1.7GB (1,700,000,000 bytes) image leaving ~300MB free for > the overlay. > > Then leaves both wiggle-room and also enables us to include *compelling* > stuff like Ogg Theora videos featuring Shadowman etc etc. The price differences between 1GB and 2GB sticks seem minimal (and you can find some 2GB cheaper than 1GB, of course). I lobbied purposely with the Red Hat Summit organizers to make sure we gave out Fedora on 2GB keys so that we could have a sizable key. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
