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| From | Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list |
| Date | 2018-01-14 12:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <v7OkN-2Cp-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <v6g1P-564-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <v6glc-5ds-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <v6glc-5ds-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <v7Mj0-19m-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Invalid Argument |
Pascal wrote: >Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : >> >> the sizes of the images, particularly in the >> case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be >> able to fit on a DVD or a CD. > >Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of >4.7 GB, like subsequent DVD images. Instead, they have a size of 4 GB >only. AFAIK, this is so that it can fit in a 4-GB USB stick or as a file >in a FAT filesystem. Exactly designed to fit on a 4GB USB stick, yes. But otherwise sizes are designed to fit various optical media. I *have* pondered about doing slightly-undersized "DL-DVD" sized media again to fit on 8GB media, but not sure tbh... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
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Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list John Hosack <hosack410@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 05:20 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-10 05:40 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-10 05:40 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-01-10 11:50 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-10 13:30 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-10 13:40 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-10 15:40 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-14 10:00 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-14 12:10 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-01-15 02:00 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-10 13:10 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-10 16:00 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-12 19:00 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-01-13 14:30 +0100
Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-13 16:20 +0100
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