--- On Sat, 2/7/09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
Subject: Re: f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD?
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 5:01 PM
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that has to be awfully close to the maximum
capacity. is that
> really too large? and why put out an image that just
ever so slightly
> goes over the limit? or am i misreading something?
Settings / Configure K3b...
Advanced
[x] Allow overburning (not supported by cdrecord <=
1.10)
OK
and you should be good to go. This should probably be added
to the wiki.
I wonder if we should set this option by default in
kde-settings.
As for why we didn't just make it fit the limit: our
live CD maintainer was
extremely busy and he didn't have much time to work on
the live image in
the short time frame leading to the alpha. He did make one
adjustment to
try to reach the target size, but it was still slightly
over the limit. I
was also extremely busy (and I also have no experience with
spinning live
images, which is needed to test what size they result in),
so I wasn't able
to help.
We will try to make it fit into whatever K3b and/or wodim
thinks is the
maximum size (is it 700*1024*1024 bytes? Or something close
to that? I'll
have to check) for the beta. (Sigh, having to cut off
useful applications
to stay within an arbitrary limit which can usually be
overburned anyway is
frustrating. I'd even argue we should actually make the
images
intentionally slightly oversized, but I guess my suggestion
won't get much
sympathy.)
Kevin Kofler
--
How about a live dvd with all/most DE in place, GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE
as well. That would be better download all the possibilities in one DVD. This would make
a "one size fits all" mentality, otherwise put in a usb drive with the capacity
to boot it with a specialized cd to boot usb drives(when the bios does not work, and user
does not have a dvd drive).
Regards,
Antonio