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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@(protected):
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, 14:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm going to put Gentoo on my Mac Mini. No one ever uses the
> > machine for anything. So much for OS X I suppose. Anyway, the 2008
> > beta, located here:
> >
> > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2008.0_beta1/
> >
> > is 745MB which doesn't fit on 700MB CD-Rs I have. Are there CD-Rs
> > larger than 700MB? I looked online anf everything seemed to be 700MB
> > also.
>
> I remember seeing and using 90-min (800MB) and even 100-min (900MB) CD-Rs
> in the past. Of course, don't expect them to work on every CD reader. My
> experience was that 800MB CD-Rs worked with most, but not all, CD
> readers. The only 900MB CD-R I ever wrote filling it completely was not
> readable by any CD reader among those I tried.
> Don't know whether they can still be found nowadays, now that DVDs are
> readily available.
Thanks. I'll check that out.
Do you know if it's legal to write a CD-R iso image to a DVD? I assume
it isn't.... (Guess I could just try it when I get a few minutes.)
In the short term the easist thing to do was to download the 2007.0
iso as it doesn't have this issue since it's smaller.
Thanks,
Mark
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