> > Bill Davidsen wrote: > rjames wrote: > > > > > > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:01 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:27:52PM -0400, Jim wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > What are these FC 10 Snap 1, 2 releases, ISO's ?? > > > > > I have FC 10 Beta installed and a lot of problems. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Most are related to getting the XO hardware working with F10 > > > > (explore http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki [1] [1]) > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, the Snaps are a more general part of the release process now > > > so that we can get more testing of media-based things beyond just alpha > > > + beta + preview release. > > > > > > There's just a nice side effect that they're handy and work out well for > > > some of the testing on the XO :) > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you guys are going to be using these in the future for live cd's, you need to make sure you aren't overburning these things because a hell of a lot of cd/dvd burners *DON'T* support this, and the snap 3 386 live cd iso are overburned [703 megs instead of the standard 650/702 megs]. > > > > None of my Liteon dvd burners support overburning and I don't think the older sony cdwr drive I have in a older computer supports it either. > > > > If you are going to be overburning these things, at least say so, so people won't waste their time downloading something that's going to be unusable on their machines. > > > > > It's easy to look at the size of the image and the capacity of the CD and decide > if it will fit. I have 720 and 730 CDs from an obscure source called Office Max. > You can often get them from newegg as well, I never ordered anything special, > they just came that way. > > You may have to use the overburn option to cdrecord, I don't ever recall doing > that, but it's there. I use the cdrecord from the author rather than the hack > one which comes with Fedora and some other distributions, that might be a factor. > > In short, I burn these on a variety of burners, CD and DVD, and have no problem > with the size. You might have some small media, in which case a quick investment > would be in order, but larger sizes are available. > > > > > You just don't get it, do you? > > The *MEDIA* has *NOTHING* to do the problem. > > The *PROBLEM* with *OVERBURNING* an ISO CD's that's *NOT FOR YOUR PERSONAL USE* is that a lot of the *DRIVE HARDWARE* for CDRW/DVDRW BURNERS DO NOT SUPPORT OVERBURNING AT ALL. > > THE HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR IT DOES NOT EXIST IN THE DRIVE AT ALL ANYMORE. I KNOW BOTH OF MY LITEON CD/DVD BURNERS DON'T SUPPORT IT. I'M TAKING ABOUT DVD BURNERS THAT CAN READ AND WRITE DVD-RAM HERE. > > OVERBURNING OUSTSIDE OF A FEW ODDBALL DRIVES WAS NEVER VERY COMMON FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, WHICH HAD TO DO WITH THE LIMITS OF THE 650 MEG CD'S, WHICH WERE PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY CD MEDIA THERE WAS A NEED TO USE OVERBURNING TO BEGIN WITH. > > WHEN THE 702 MEG CD'S BECAME THE STANDARD, OVERBURNING FADED AWAY FROM THE DRIVE MECHS FOR A GOOD REASON. THE DISKS CREATED USING IT WERE UNSTABLE. ODDS WERE GOOD THAT THE PRETTY MUCH ONLY DRIVE THAT COULD READ AN OVERBURNED CD WAS THE ONE THAT CREATED IT. > > SO USING AN OVERBURNED CD FOR AN ISO DISTRBUTION BASE IS A VERY,VERY BAD IDEA TO BEGIN WITH,SINCE IT'S GOING TO DO NOTHING BUT CREATE UNNECESSARY PROBLEMS IN THE END. Links: ------ [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=299269&topic_id=63022&forum=12#forumpost299269 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame rj1961r9@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
