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Carl Lowenstein wrote: > I would like some suggestions for future use of Pandora2, the CD/DVD > duplication system. > > Its current 60GB hard drive can hold 56 CD images, at the moment there > are 49 installed. About half are more than one year old. The oldest > is Fedora Core 3, dating to late 2004. > > I have had no requests for production of older CD images, and propose > that the drive be treated as a ring buffer, deleting old files to make > room for new ones. Seems reasonable. Why would we want to worry about archiving old distros, esp. if no one ever asks for them. > > There is also a 160GB drive in a carrier that can be swapped in. I > will probably start using it to hold DVD images. Until now, I have > just been duplicating DVDs from reader to writer, without storing on a > hard drive. I suppose the mobo/ROM-software only handles one drive, eh? > > With the primitive "file system" implemented in the ROM-based > firmware, each CD image takes up 1GB on a disk, each DVD image takes > 5GB, and they can not be mixed on the same physical device. > > Comments are welcome. It seems that on-demand demand has been practically zero, for some time. Probably because our distroMeister has done such a good job of anticipating and pre-building CDs and DVDs at home, and providing most installfest needs from such "stock". (..thanks cdl..) Going forward (as they say), whatever the options, I think the resources should be used to minimize the pain of the distroMeister. Some further observations (please correct as req'd): 1. The box, Pandora2, has one significant convenience -- the ability to burn multiple (eg, 3) copies of a CD at once. 2. It is also reasonably transportable (light, robust), but that has been a lesser convenience, since cdl does so much pre-building. 3. The proprietary ROM-OS software is pretty much already stretched to its limits, and adding features/conveniences is probably not very feasible without someone contributing a largescale hacking effort. .. Q: Does Pan2 really provide any special convenience when making DVDs? Could it make 3 DVDs if it had 3 DVD-writers? Or, might we want to consider another simple-minded (Frys $150?) box for a separate dvd-burner? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
