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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:33:03 +0300
From:      Gilad Rom <gilad_bsd@romat.com>
To:        Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3" CD-R
Message-ID:  <1086114783.3113.3.camel@gilad.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20040601174746.GA21657@metron.com>
References:  <20040601073740.GB5854@nevermind.kiev.ua> <200406011749.45666.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <6.1.0.6.1.20040601102920.02e2faa8@popserver.sfu.ca> <20040601174746.GA21657@metron.com>

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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 20:47, Lou Katz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:43:00PM +0300, Gilad Rom wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:32, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > At 09:19 01/06/2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > >miniinst isn't meant for small CD's, it's just meant to be smaller than the 
> > > >full disk.
> > > >
> > > >Would be nice to shave that 8Mb off though :)
> > > 
> > >   No it wouldn't.  If we make it fit now, then we'll be struggling to
> > > make it continue to fit for years into the future.  (Just look at the
> > > floppy disk situation.)
> > >   Much better just to accept that it doesn't fit onto a 3" CD-R and
> > > move on. :-)
> > > 
> > > Colin Percival
> > > 
> > 
> > Funny. And I didn't even know they're still making 3" CD's ;)
> 
> But they do make 3" DVD blanks.
> 

Well that's actually useful.




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