iso file size after decompression, overburning

[Jasse Jansson]

Is it time to scrap the relics that's called games ???
Is the floppy drive related stuff still needed ???


On 2016-08-19 02:19, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Its getting harder and harder to fit a reasonable base dist onto a 
> CD.  I really recommend using the USB disk image instead of trying to 
> burn an ISO.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Antonio Olivares 
> <olivares14031 at gmail.com <mailto:olivares14031 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear DragonflyBSD users,
>
>     In previous versions of dfly, the size of iso was <=2 702/703 MB and
>     it was okay to burn on a cd.
>     version 4.4.3 went about 715MB and I used overburn option in cdrecord.
>
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 243626574 Aug  1 13:46
>     dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso.bz2
>
>     after decompresion:
>
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 750368768 Aug  1 13:46
>     dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso
>
>     which is about 716 according to k3b.  Do you recommend me burning a
>     DVD instead of using overburning?  Do I need to worry about files
>     missing if I use overburn with a cd?
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>
>     Antonio
>
>