Sorry -- I answered what I supposed to be the intent of the question (and still hope it helped.) Yaron was of course correct; there is no limit to what goes in the image file, what fit's on the media is where life gets interesting! Cheers, Phil On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 jrsmit2 at uswest.com wrote: > > > > > _Exactly_ how many kb will fit on an ISO9660 image? > > Sorry to disappoint, but there is no exact answer to that question. > 650MB is given as the figure for most CD's, but it is a little bit > conservative. Differences in track pitch can result in higher > densities. Also differences in writers. In otherwords, if anyone gives > you an exact answer, I wouldn't have to work very hard to prove them > wrong. > > If you use 650, you will not have problems or make a lot of coasters. If > you want to mess with your particular system, as well as different brands > of media, you may be able to squeeze it up or down. > > Hope that helps. > > Phil Mendelsohn > > -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org