On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:51, Tom Whiting wrote:

> It's not that simple.

Yes, it is.

> Mandrake overpacks the CD's plain and simple.

No, it doesn't.

> While 650 is starting to be the low standard, umm, 700m is pushing the limit.
> Personally, my burner can handle 689m (that's the most i've tested), but it 

Your burner is defective or you are using it wrong.

> can't handle the newer  ISO's. Why? Who cares. I just know what it can not 
> do. you can't just pack a cd rom that is (supposed) to be only 700m with 700m 
> of data  and give it no room for the sync.

What the fuck do you mean, "the sync"? Current Mandrake ISOs burn
happily to my 700MB CDs from a rather old Sony CDRW. No overburning,
nothing special. I just write them using xcdroast, and they come out
fine. Are you possibly not using DAO mode?
-- 
adamw


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