On Wednesday 15 January 2003 01:53 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > you mean the drive itself couldn't handle the 700MB > > > media? thats a new one for me, although I'm not > > > saying it can't happen. > > > - -- > > > Mark > > > > Exactly, Mark. I repeated the fiasco on my laptop, > > same thing happened. Went back to 8.2, no problem > > there ! It seems Mandrake made the .iso's hit the > > roof. > > As I recall when 9.0 came out there was quite a lot of > discussion on the lists as to why this came about, but I > don't recall as to the why of it all. What speed did you > burn the iso's at? > - -- > Mark > I didn't burn the iso's myself but got them from a danish, but very efficient (and cheap) reseller ( http://www.linuxpusher.dk ) because I think it is best for Mandrake to support them by club membership ( silver, actually ) rather then ordering a full box ( thus sparing them the cost ).
However, a quick look at a FTP-mirror tells me that MDK 9.0 ISO CD1 is 694.6 MB MDK 8.2 ISO CD1 is 650.0 MB and I'm pretty convinced that my old CD-reader chokes at everything above 650 MB. Kaj Haulrich Denmark. =========================================== Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===========================================
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