That was on /. awhile back. It was quite ridiculous, but it's the very reason that you buy an 18Gb drive and you don't really get 18Gb. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Gabe Turner wrote: > 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. ;) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com > > Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "You seeck leettle monkey!" > - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Invention" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org