On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote:
Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon:
I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not
done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot
while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd.
But what is jigdo-bd? Under what conditions is it the proper choice?
"bd" must be mnemonic for something, but I don't make the connection
the way I do for "cd".
TIA
Hi,
"bd" stands for Bluray-Disc.
Cheers,
Dejan
You might want it if you have a bluray drive for some reason. I
haven't seen a regular PC with a BD drive yet, so I assume they are
fairly rare in the wild. Reader/Writer drives (in the same form-
factor as standard PC 5.25-inch internal CD/DVD drives) seem to be
selling for about US$100 - $200 on the web.
At <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable> is the
following information:
"Blu-ray Disc recordable (or BD-R) refers to two direct to disc
optical disc recording technologies that can be recorded on to an
optical disc with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written
to once, whereas BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc Rewritable) can be erased and re-
recorded multiple times. Disc capacities are 25 GB (23.28 GiB) for
single-layer discs, 50 GB (46.57 GiB) for double-layer discs, 100 GB
for triple-layer discs, and 128 GB for quad-layer discs."
25GB is about 5 single-layer DVDs. So you can get a substantial
fraction of the entire Debian distribution, including source, on a
single BD disk.
Rick
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