Re: [TCLUG:20156] Installfest

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

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. ;)
> 
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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@acm.cs.umn.edu

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