On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:34 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger <at> gmail.com> writes: > >>> The playing time is 74 minutes, or 4440 seconds, so that the net > >>> capacity of a Mode-1 CD-ROM is 682 MB.""" > >> > >> Uh, 74 minute CDs are completely obsolete, around here (Austria) they > >> don't even sell these anymore! 80 minute / 700 MB CDs are the > >> standard size these days, and those are what Fedora's live images are > >> (and have always been) designed to fit. > >> > > But not all drives can read 700MB from a CD. Those drives might be > > obsolete in the sense that you can't buy them on a new computer > > anymore but there's plenty of old hardware available where it could be > > a problem. > I haven't seen yet a disk drive unit manufactured in the last 6 years > which is still functional but is unable to read 700 MB disks. Actually I > do not remember of ANY unit manufactured this century and unable to read > 700 MB disks. > Also I don't recall getting any bug reports regarding the CD isos being too large, especially for the Live images. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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