Thanks for the quick replies . . .

But what I need is the correct command line for mkcd to create the 700MB
ISOs from the downloaded Cooker tree . . .

I have no problems creating the 700MB CDs from the (already) provided
700MB beta images.

Thx,
R.Fox


On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 11:06, Murray J. Root wrote:
> On 09 Aug 2002 10:24:47 +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) wrote:
> 
> > Could someone shed some light on the correct command to create a set of
> > CDs from the latest Cooker (the 700MB Cds)
> > 
> > Thx,
> > R.Fox
> > 
> 
> 1) use real 700M blanks - do not try overwriting 650M (they will say they burned 
>right, but they didn't)
> 
> 2) use a relatively new CD burner (if it burns less than 4x, forget it)
> 
> 3) use cdrecord -v (that will warn you if it detects a problem with burning the CDs)
> 
> 4) use a very good CD drive to read the CDs. CD1 was sized at very close to the 
>limits of any drive to read.
> 
> 5) Win XP's built-in burn app is useless - it calculates 700M as 700 * 1000 * 1000 
>and adjusts offsets the same way. TOC ends up being wrong.
> ( correct math - 700M = 700 * 1024 *1024 )
> 
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