It has to do with the misinterpretation of a megabyte... When they (the CD manufacturer) say 650 MB, you think 650,000,000 bytes, but 650 MB is really 1024*650,000 = 665,600,000 bytes. They've actually contemplated leaving 1000k as a megabyte and renaming 1024k to mebabyte or somehting like that. Silly if you ask me. Gabe On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 03:39:00PM -0400, Brian wrote: > >On a related note, just tried burning a Red Hat Pinstripe CD. It >won't > >fit... > > > I wish someone could explain to me how a 665 MB image fit onto a 650 MB CD. > All my CDs are 650 and even though I was positive it wouldn't work, it did. > Especially strange is that the drive I used has been known to "imagine" data > on a blank CD and refuse to write, claiming there wasn't enough space. > > While we're on the subject of Pinstripe, I'm planning on installing it > tonight on my system. Has anyone else tried it/able to offer some words of > wisdom? > > -Brian > > > > > 7.1 what? > > > > Gabe > > > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:53:32PM -0500, Bob W. Anderson wrote: > > > I've signed up for the installfest but haven't received a time > confirmation. > > > Should I just show up at the very beginning? > > > > > > The list and other Linux sites are reporting a lot of anguish over 7.1 > installs. > > > Should I wait a while before entering this threatening forrest or will > there be > > > adequate expertise/experience on had at the installfest to assure modest > > > success? I'm really gun-shy since my own attempt to install 7.0 last > winter > > > resulted in corruption of both HD's and data loss. > > > > > > BTW - I think I finally got it figured out. Lilo is the name of one of > the > > > Teletubbies. No wonder I have problems. > > Lilo predates teletubbies by a few years. ;) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > ----------------------------------------------- > FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com > Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "You seeck leettle monkey!" - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Invention" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org