Steffen Barszus wrote: Please try and trim some of the stuff you reply to ... I had trouble finding your comments after I hit reply ..
> On Friday 10 January 2003 17:02, Pierre Fortin wrote: >>0**. ISOs created for post-standard 700MB CDs (this is like trying to >>write 2MB on *any* 1.44 floppy drive ever manufactured) excommunicated all >>users who didn't own standards-extending writers. >> > > 700MB CDs are in my area the only one you will get. It is quite complicated to > become 650 MB cd-r's. Where is it written, that it is bad ? How many people > have really problems with that beside you ? Isn't it enough that the club has > provided 650 MB ISOs ? > Who cares about the media, it's trivial in cost to the devices required to read the media. Especially consider that a user buying a boxed set (AFIAK, boxed sets were also 700MB) shouldn't be forced to buy a new CD-ROM drive just because Mandrakesoft wanted to ship one less CD. If you have an affected drive, Mandrake 9.0 was a nightmare. I say this after having done about 10 intalls on machines which were fine, not seeing what all the fuss is about, to discover it really is a problem on some machines. And no, downloading 4 ISO images at R1.50/MB (approx $0.18 or so) is not a feasible answer to people who have bought sets. And also when the rest of the ISO are mirrored around (and as such are free to download for me). And I wouldn't try and download the 2.6GB over a modem (which is cheaper, but slower than the connection here). Please don't make such a trivial mistake which could potentially cause a proportion of users to have extreme frustration. Sure, it may only affect 5% or less of users, but what if some of those 5% would have been club members. My girlfriend has an affected machine, and it's essentially impossible for her to install any software unless I am there with my laptop (not often, it's a 4 hour drive there). Anyway, I will submit it as a request on MandrakeClub, then we will see how much it is worth ... Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
