On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:23, Adam Williamson wrote:
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.
Ditto, and on a dodgy Diamond drive at that (e.g. it won't burn LASER
You can buy new burners for about $30 ($40 for a 24-40x) that can easily
handle 700MB discs. If you have a burner that can't (as 700MB discs are
the now defacto standard and almost completly replace 650s)), it's
either very buggy or total junk. That extra 50MB per disc won't take
too much
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
Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I disagree, IMHO the download CD's should be as complete as
possible. For example, AFAIK the 3rd CD of the betas and RC1 has had
nearly 200MB of free space left on it while important contrib packages
have been left out.
On Friday 06 September 2002 11:49, Byron Poland wrote:
I dont mind the 700 meg cd's, they are not any more difficult to burn than
650 mb cd's just a different pice of media. I would prefer the 700 over the
650 so more goodies can be included.
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:19, Vox wrote:
Warly
On Friday 06 September 2002 02:29 am, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:41, erik wrote:
If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem to
get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB burners
increase market.
And less download
On Friday 06 September 2002 04:54 pm, Texstar wrote:
Keep in mind that people coming from Windows who may want to try Linux
(Mandrake of course) need to be able to burn them from Windows
applications as well.
Any decent windows burning program (CDRWIN, Nero, etc) can burn 700 meg discs
just
The interesting question is whether this move is intended to:
a: animate people to buy powerpack or prosuite
and/or
b: save download bandwidth
?
Sascha
On Friday 06 September 2002 05:52 am, Warly wrote:
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I disagree, IMHO the download CD's should be as
If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem to
get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB burners
increase market.
And less download time
Erik
