On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:06:34PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:51:07AM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Subject: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD? > > > > To: "Fedora List" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 10:29 AM > > > > > > > > i downloaded the set of F11 alpha live images and all burned to CD > > > > properly except for the one above, which k3b rejected as being too > > > > large to fit on a CD: > > > > > > > > 667088896 2009-02-06 13:04 F11-Alpha-i686-Live.iso > > > > 731385856 2009-02-06 13:07 F11-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso > > > > 671713280 2009-02-06 13:06 F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso > > > > 737335296 2009-02-06 13:06 F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso > > > > > > > > that has to be awfully close to the maximum capacity. is that > > > > really too large? and why put out an image that just ever so > > > > slightly goes over the limit? or am i misreading something? > > > > > > Other than using DVD media, maybe overburn option? > > > > > > would help/not help at all. > > > > > > Yes, it does go over the limit, guess it is best to use DVD media > > > for that one. > > > > As I understand it, the release engineers came to the point in the > > schedule where they had to either release something that would work > > on some CD burners and definitely would work for DVD/USB media, or > > simply not release a KDE spin of Fedora 11 Alpha. They opted to > > make sure KDE users were properly incented to try it out. :-) > > ok, that clears that up. and should i assume that i really should > have asked this (and all f11-related questions) on the fedora-test > list? i'm guessing i should have. That would probably guarantee you an answer, just because I don't catch all the posts here daily. But it's well asked, in any case, and I'm glad I could put the answer in front of this list too. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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