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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Universal PPC ISO size?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:25:06
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0804160724u3346e8e4g463ba5418b847513@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Universal PPC ISO size? by Florian Philipp
1 On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Florian Philipp
2 <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 05:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
6 > > Hi,
7 > > I'm going to put Gentoo on my Mac Mini. No one ever uses the
8 > > machine for anything. So much for OS X I suppose. Anyway, the 2008
9 > > beta, located here:
10 > >
11 > > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2008.0_beta1/
12 > >
13 > > is 745MB which doesn't fit on 700MB CD-Rs I have. Are there CD-Rs
14 > > larger than 700MB? I looked online anf everything seemed to be 700MB
15 > > also.
16 > >
17 > > Or am I supposed to write this to a DVD even thought the Gentoo
18 > > docs say it's a CD-R image?
19 > >
20 > > Thanks,
21 > > Mark
22 >
23 > There are 800MB-models.
24 >
25 > Anyway, you can also try to burn more on a disk than it is supposed to.
26 > Don't ask me why it works, sometimes it does, sometimes you waste a
27 > CD-R...
28 >
29
30 K3b didn't seem to allow that. thanks for the info on the 800MB versions.
31
32 - Mark
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