Pierre Fortin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wednesday October 16 2002 09:58 am, Pierre Fortin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>ARGHHHHHHH!!!!! Worse!!! What appeared to be under *700*, wasn't:
>>> 681836544 Mar 18 2002 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso
>>> 680624128 Mar 18 2002 Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586.iso
>>> 679739392 Mar 18 2002 Mandrake82-cd3-supp.i586.iso
>>> * 728334336 Sep 29 03:24 Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
>>> * 733544448 Sep 29 17:00 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso
>>> 478511104 Sep 30 01:51 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.is
>>
>> 733544448 bytes == 699.6 MB and easily fits on a 700MB CD
>
>
> Apparently not with _xcdroast_... it just "burned" a blank disk... I
> just burned 8.2 successfully on the *same* platter that xcdroast claimed
> was burned with 9.0.... I'm burning 9.0 with -overburn right now... of
> course, that can only be done with _cdrecord_ directly since xcdroast does
> not appear to have support for overburn and many other cdrecord options.
As Tom says, all the 9.0 misc/MakeCD iso images will fit on CD-RW 700MB
blanks. I have done it without overburn, so do not see your problem?
Perhaps the 9.0 iso files might go on 650MB blanks with overburn? ...
> Bottom line: GUI frontends generally suck!
Absolutely true - all of them that I have tried get it wrong. Every
one! I do not know why Mandrake perseveres or distributes them since
they do not work - not one of them!
cdrecord is tops, and very easy to use as root. Don't forget the dao
argument if you want to be able to md5sum <iso file> /dev/cdrom, which
IMHO is essential. There is no equivalent in Windows 98 SE - but some
Windows burning software has a verify mode, which cdrecord does not have.
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