On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008, 14:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm going to put Gentoo on my Mac Mini. No one ever uses the > > machine for anything. So much for OS X I suppose. Anyway, the 2008 > > beta, located here: > > > > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2008.0_beta1/ > > > > is 745MB which doesn't fit on 700MB CD-Rs I have. Are there CD-Rs > > larger than 700MB? I looked online anf everything seemed to be 700MB > > also. > > I remember seeing and using 90-min (800MB) and even 100-min (900MB) CD-Rs > in the past. Of course, don't expect them to work on every CD reader. My > experience was that 800MB CD-Rs worked with most, but not all, CD > readers. The only 900MB CD-R I ever wrote filling it completely was not > readable by any CD reader among those I tried. > Don't know whether they can still be found nowadays, now that DVDs are > readily available.
Thanks. I'll check that out. Do you know if it's legal to write a CD-R iso image to a DVD? I assume it isn't.... (Guess I could just try it when I get a few minutes.) In the short term the easist thing to do was to download the 2007.0 iso as it doesn't have this issue since it's smaller. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
