6.06 ppc desktop iso size.....

Paul Sladen ubuntu at paul.sladen.org
Thu Jun 22 00:40:56 BST 2006


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> the image downloads and its final size in 701MB (701.1 rather), which is
> 1.1MB bigger than most cds (at 700MB),

An 80 minute disk is:

  80 minutes * 60 seconds * 75 sectors * 2048 bytes = 737280000 bytes

now, once you have that figure, depending on whether it is divided by
'1000', or '1024' you will get different answers for the size in "megabytes"
and that may well be the cause of the "too small" error.

	-Paul
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